Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 2 | The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment . |
| 3 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 4 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 5 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 6 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 7 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 8 | Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire . |
| 9 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 10 | As I dragged myself back to the Duck and Forceps , I suddenly felt a strange empathy with the great Mike Channon . |
| 11 | I pull myself up to a sitting position . |
| 12 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 13 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 14 | Sobbing for breath , she lowered herself on to the ladder . |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't it time you got yourself down to the hospital to see that old bag in the bed ? |
| 16 | She got herself back to the lodging somehow . |
| 17 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 18 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 19 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 20 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 21 | She angled herself on to a stool . |
| 22 | She pulled herself up to the level of the bonnet by hanging on to the wing mirror then snatched at a scrap of folded paper . |
| 23 | She pulled herself back to the point , assuming once more an expression of sobriety . |
| 24 | She took herself off to the library , read all she could , and ordered a set of language tapes . |
| 25 | She took herself off to the bathroom , carefully locking both doors before shedding her clothes . |
| 26 | She took herself off to the kitchen , saw with some incredulity from the kitchen clock that it was four o'clock — and shut herself in . |
| 27 | The class structure is becoming dominated by the knowledge mercenaries who hire themselves out to the feudal barons of top management and state agencies , each of whom is as good as the last battle . |
| 28 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 29 | She gave herself up to the water almost gratefully . |
| 30 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |