Example sentences of "[pn reflx] up [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 2 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 3 | On Oct. 6 Klaus Kuron , 54 , who had worked since 1962 for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz — BfV ) , gave himself up to the authorities and was formally arrested shortly afterwards . |
| 4 | Tell Russell to give himself up to the police and when they have dealt with him , Mr Christie , I am going to shoot him . ’ |
| 5 | Connolly gave himself up to the police and was charged with damage to the cell amounting to ten shillings . |
| 6 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 7 | He eased himself up on the pillow and examined the breakfast tray . |
| 8 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 9 | He pulled himself up over the wall and disappeared . |
| 10 | Denis did n't remember what happened to the bowler hat after the old man had laboured to haul himself up into the cart and , in response to a wave of the gun , had carefully stretched himself out on its messy floor . |
| 11 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 12 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 13 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 14 | The meal finished , Stan Carver , placing his hands on each side of his plate , slowly raised himself up from the table and , standing still for a moment , said , ‘ Thank God for a good dinner . ’ |
| 15 | And he did , propping himself up against the wall and chatting lightheartedly to the patient while she wound the plaster bandage round the broken wrist . |
| 16 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 17 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She pressed closely against him , winding her arms round his neck and opening her mouth in welcome , giving herself up to the desire that flooded through her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Laura hauled herself up from the sofa and went to answer it . |
| 23 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 24 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |
| 25 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 26 | she can nae get herself up in the morning if there 's nobody there , can she ? |
| 27 | Anthea drew herself up in the chair and her dark eyes flashed like rapiers at Montgomery . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Go on , push yourself up on the handles and let the trolley take you for a ride , just like a child ! |
| 30 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |