Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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31 | He then fired at Pc Kelly through the police car windscreen , and as the officer lay injured across the front seat walked up to the car , put his hand on the roof to steady himself and emptied the gun into the officer 's body . |
32 | By releasing it into the world , he relieved himself and taunted the fates to punish him . |
33 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
34 | One it can go towards the withdrawal end of the spectrum , so that the child shuts up , withdraws , isolates himself and puts the lid on . |
35 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
36 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
37 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
38 | He opened the door for her himself and dismissed the escort with a nod . |
39 | He nodded to himself and stroked the underside of his beard with the back of his hand . |
40 | After the resignation of John St Luce as Finance Minister on Feb. 22 , the Prime Minister had taken on the Finance portfolio himself and presented the 1991 budget to Parliament on March 7 , giving only an outline of the proposals instead of a detailed budget speech . |
41 | Then he hailed another for himself and gave the driver the address of the Montrose . |
42 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
43 | Throgmorton glared once more at Millet , composed himself and ticked the points off on his fingers . |
44 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
45 | Penny 's book Romancing The Stars suggested that Prince Charles was finding it difficult to blend his spiritual inner values with his outer role , and that meant he was retreating further into himself and widening the gulf between himself and Diana . |
46 | It took several moments for him to orientate himself and wipe the sleep from his eyes . |
47 | Our rambling sketcher did n't , alas , go in himself and record the young phenomenon with his pencil ; but he waited while a French cavalryman paid his penny farthing , entered the caravan , and emerged mouthing ‘ some very choice Norman phraseology ’ . |
48 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
49 | The fighting was too close for firearms ; the two men went down together in the darkness and wrestled until another American could discern which was which and hit the redhead hard with the butt of his Colt . |
50 | We see therefore that Boltzmann 's superposition integral is a special case of a more general functional relationship between stress and deformation gradient in which and has the special form in which the kernel function K1 contains t and only in the combination ( t — ) . |
51 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
52 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
53 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
54 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
55 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
56 | Particularly when good applicants are in short supply advertisements placed in Teachers ' Centres and nearby colleges , faculties and institutes of education cost nothing and improve the trawl . |
57 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
58 | He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me . |
59 | I had no regrets as I slammed the door behind me and left the cottage for the last time . |
60 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |