Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pn reflx] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dolled myself up after the bath . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 4 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're going to have to do something — because I simply ca n't tell you two imps of mischief apart , ’ Laura muttered , groaning as she levered herself up against the pillows . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Not my sister , ’ she drew herself up in the chair . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | She pulled herself up onto an elbow to gaze at him . |
| 10 | She pulled herself up on the bed and , kneeling in such a way that George could see her breasts to their best advantage , took his phallus into her mouth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 13 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
| 14 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 17 | She gave herself up to the water almost gratefully . |
| 18 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 19 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 20 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 21 | A sigh escaped her , and as she gave herself up to the pleasure of his embrace her arm rose to entwine about his neck . |
| 22 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 23 | Her eyes closed as her lips parted , then she gave herself up to the joy of feeling his heart begin to thud . |
| 24 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 25 | Shutting her eyes to the inevitability of what lay ahead , she gave herself up to the ride as he took her higher and higher into the peaks , following a winding route off the main road that was little used . |
| 26 | Exhausted , she gave herself up to the motion . |
| 27 | She pushed herself up into a sitting position . |
| 28 | And despite Wednesday 's 2–0 cup collapse to Cookstown , coach Mark Sinnamon insists his young warriors can come through their toughest test since the 1986 Irish Senior Cup final when they pulled themselves up by the bootlaces to beat Three Rock Rovers . |
| 29 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |