Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 2 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 3 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 4 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 5 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 6 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 7 | Tonight , I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury . |
| 8 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 9 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 10 | He was looking across at her as she seated herself gingerly in the armchair opposite him . |
| 11 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation . |
| 12 | Did she bail herself out in the end with over her money situation ? |
| 13 | ‘ Not my sister , ’ she drew herself up in the chair . |
| 14 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |
| 15 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 16 | She rolled herself up in a ball and covered her head . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She pushed herself down in the bed , as if trying to escape accusing glances . |
| 19 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 20 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 21 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 22 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 23 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 24 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 25 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 26 | He saw himself more in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the designer who can turn his hand to anything . |
| 27 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 28 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 29 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 30 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |