Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
| 2 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |
| 3 | Antony perched himself comfortably on the edge of the table . |
| 4 | Manville pulled himself together with a mental jolt . |
| 5 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 6 | Searching back wearily and wretchedly through what was left of the night they found Iorwerth dragging himself painfully along the grass like a trampled snail in a slime of blood , and two more who crawled and swooned by turns in the fringes of the wood . |
| 7 | In these circumstances Muliro put himself forward as a compromise presidential candidate , and had hoped to heal the rifts in the party at the party conference due in early September . |
| 8 | With his powers of observation , his smooth , fast-moving narratives and his ability to make characters live on the screen , Hitchcock set himself apart from the rest of British cinema . |
| 9 | Then a few lines further on : ‘ Stavrogin reveals himself gradually through the action without any explanations ’ . |
| 10 | Loretta perched herself uncomfortably on the very edge of the jacket . |
| 11 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 12 | As bedtime approached , Léonie tidied herself away into a corner . |
| 13 | By unilaterally adopting the programme , with its commitment to wide-ranging economic sovereignty for the individual republics , Russia placed itself potentially on a collision course with the USSR administration should the latter not follow suit . |
| 14 | Lissa pulled herself together with an effort . |
| 15 | Simon pushed himself away from the table and went back to the hissing kettle to make his coffee . |
| 16 | Cardiff threw himself backwards against the staircase wall , as the thing from the stairwell lunged backwards into the darkness , taking the flapping and gutted body of Peters with it , still fastened to its arm . |
| 17 | After a triumphant journey of 30-odd feet , unfortunately executed backwards , Julia propelled herself neatly into the nearest restaurant and ordered an early rösti . |
| 18 | Matilda perched herself carefully on an upturned box and more out of politeness than anything else she took a slice of bread and margarine and started to eat it . |
| 19 | As she quietened Penry heaved himself upright against the head of the bed , taking her with him as he pulled the bright quilt up over her shoulders . |
| 20 | With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do . |
| 21 | Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case . |
| 22 | By an effort of courage against all instinct , Hazel forced himself forward into the gap , with Fiver following . |
| 23 | At the end of the poem Coleridge see himself almost as a shamanic figure who has returned from a prophetic trance , someone whose duty is to spread ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ . |
| 24 | FitzAlan hurled himself forward in a low tackle , the pike whistling harmlessly over him . |
| 25 | Hobhouse concerned himself directly with the evolution of mind at a time when the behaviourist dogma had not yet arrived to inhibit such a discussion . |
| 26 | Maxie withdrew himself reluctantly from the excitement of the football game he was watching on television . |
| 27 | Miss Fergusson expressed herself forcibly on the subject of popular superstition and the responsibility of the clergy . |
| 28 | Virginia lowered herself carefully to the ground . |
| 29 | But the boot room continued to play an invaluable part in this difficult post-Heysel period , helping Kenny Dalglish to establish himself quickly as an outstanding manager with the club 's first championship-FA Cup double in 1986 , and subsequent League titles and another FA Cup final . |
| 30 | Ana excused herself quickly at the sound of his tight voice and as she left the room Felipe fixed Mitch with a sceptical eye . |