Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 2 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 3 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 4 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 5 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 6 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 7 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 8 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 9 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 10 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 11 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 12 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 13 | If the individual can fence himself off from the prying eyes or fingers of the state , can maintain his private domain in his own way without intervention by public authorities , an important aspect of political liberty is established . |
| 14 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 15 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 16 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 17 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 18 | So , in JUST LIKE A WOMAN ( Cert 15 ; General ) , it 's a bit of a relief when Gerald ( Adrian Pasdar ) finally admits he gets his kicks out of dressing as a woman — and proves the point by making himself up into the gorgeous Geraldine in front of her . |
| 19 | Rincewind , coiling himself like a spring , gave a standing jump and grasped a beam , swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him . |
| 20 | So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ? |
| 21 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 22 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 23 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 24 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |
| 25 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 26 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 27 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 28 | ‘ Be quiet yourself , ’ he said , stretching himself out on the uncomfortable horsehair sofa . |
| 29 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 30 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |