Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pull myself up to a sitting position . |
| 2 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 3 | The unconscious seems involved in a deep way , in part due to their setting themselves up as a Chosen People of God the Father . |
| 4 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 5 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 6 | Self-styled funniest programme on telly HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU dusts itself off after a very poor return to the screen last week with well-known wit Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 7 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 8 | She angled herself on to a stool . |
| 9 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 10 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 11 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 12 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 13 | She pushed herself up into a sitting position . |
| 14 | I even hoped the Germans would overrun our positions and so allow me to give myself up as a prisoner . |
| 15 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 16 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 17 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then he was up , leaning away from her to let her claw herself around into a sprawling position . |
| 20 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 21 | They watched him pull himself out beside a flowering clump of figwort , gripping one of the tough stems in his teeth , shake a shower of drops out of his fur and scutter into the alder bushes . |
| 22 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 23 | He shook himself out of a spiral of suspicion and isolation . |
| 24 | And those loonies expect him to — ’ He cut himself off with a hard slap to the bald head . |
| 25 | Then he eased himself through like a desperado entering a bar and ambled across the office , cracking quips like walnuts . |
| 26 | That was with a Russian rifle ; then he blew himself up with a Russian grenade . |
| 27 | He was n't going to be as heavily built as his father , but was lithe and agile , and she loved to watch him going after gulls ' eggs out by Blackbottle Rocks , his long legs braced against the cliff face and the muscles in his neck and back standing out like cords as he heaved himself up over a ledge . |
| 28 | But , like Horsley , Everett was immediately infected by the challenge of the project and the admirable enthusiasm which it represented , and he put himself out on a limb to help . |
| 29 | For sixthly he invites himself round for a drink one evening . |
| 30 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |