Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 2 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 3 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 4 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 5 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 6 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 7 | Tonight , I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury . |
| 8 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 9 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 10 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 11 | He was looking across at her as she seated herself gingerly in the armchair opposite him . |
| 12 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation . |
| 13 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation ? |
| 14 | ‘ Not my sister , ’ she drew herself up in the chair . |
| 15 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |
| 16 | Yes , this is the stuff real men are made of and let all those jessie pop stars who holed themselves up in the luxury of four star hotels hang their heads in shame ! |
| 17 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 18 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 19 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 20 | She pushed herself down in the bed , as if trying to escape accusing glances . |
| 21 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 22 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 23 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 24 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 25 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 26 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 27 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 28 | He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything . |
| 29 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 30 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |