Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 2 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 3 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 4 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 5 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 6 | She slid her fingers from her friend 's grasp and pulled herself up in the bed , a smile lighting up the ageing beauty of her face . |
| 7 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 8 | If Labour can not stake its claim to be the future government , it may be by-passed by events and find itself back in the wilderness . |
| 9 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 10 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 11 | He moved with a lithe easy grace across the room and stretched himself out in an easy chair . |
| 12 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 13 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 14 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |