Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , ’ Tuppe pulled a converted shirt tail from his trouser pocket and dabbed his mouth with it , ‘ that we had best finish up here and apply ourselves to adventures elsewhere . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe , she thought , I should go up there and offer myself to him . |
| 4 | Still trembling , she got out finally and wrapped herself in a huge towel and padded into the kitchen to put the kettle on . |
| 5 | All at once , Melanie was back home and swathing herself in diaphanous veiling before a mirror . |