Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 2 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 3 | Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation . |
| 4 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 5 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 6 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 7 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 8 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 9 | Rex thrust Laura into the back of the car and threw himself into the driver 's seat . |
| 10 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 11 | The younger enthusiasts of revolution , those who fervently accepted the ideals of The Green Book , seemed not to recognize the hard political work of the administrators nor to pay much attention to such discrepancies between ideology and practice as forced themselves into the consciousness of Libyans with wider experience of the ways of government . |
| 12 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 13 | ‘ Toddler fallen out of an upstairs window and impaled himself on the railings . |
| 14 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 15 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 16 | There are even suggestions that the US appoint its own Chancellor and rid itself of the high-handed monetary czars who ride unchecked across the economic landscape . |
| 17 | I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor . |
| 18 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 19 | Trent passed it up along with his weightbelt , slipped off his flippers and mask , dropped them over the taffrail and pulled himself into the cockpit . |
| 20 | — Could he have survived the fall and dragged himself to the position where he was found ? — This seemed the most likely explanation . |
| 21 | I crept along the riverside until I reached the culvert and hid myself among the banks of sweet cicely to read my book . |
| 22 | Miles crossed decisively to the starpod , unsealed the hatch and swung himself into the cabin , smiling as it snuggled shut behind him with a soft pneumatic wheeze . |
| 23 | The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull . |
| 24 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
| 25 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 26 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 27 | Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them . |
| 28 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 29 | They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison . |
| 30 | I thought , a laugh being pretty well the only dealing with the truth that offered itself at the moment , and so nothing to run down . |