Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 2 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 3 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 4 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 5 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 6 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 7 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
| 8 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 9 | As he breasted the deck level Delaney ducked back , threw himself aside at the sight of the figure sprawled on the ground . |
| 10 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 11 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 12 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
| 13 | Tom settled himself down at the table and said , ‘ Now , let's have a chat about what we 're going to do when this snow clears . |
| 14 | Beatie crossed herself quickly at the mention of the dead , the young Irish woman was sometimes ashamed of her husband 's bluntness . |
| 15 | Ana excused herself quickly at the sound of his tight voice and as she left the room Felipe fixed Mitch with a sceptical eye . |
| 16 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 17 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |