Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bounced and cuddled herself into half a dozen bright scatter cushions . |
| 2 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 3 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 4 | Tristan rose and dusted himself off . |
| 5 | Without waiting to be summoned Gennaro rose and excused himself again . |
| 6 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 7 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 8 | When she stepped back from it , it hummed and emptied itself . |
| 9 | Once her niece had found Lavender Cottage , however , Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually uprooted and transported herself and much of her furniture to Berkshire . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , Georgie , ’ His Grace the Duke , otherwise known as Everard Bean , pouted and drew himself erect . |
| 11 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
| 12 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |
| 13 | She stood her ground — he came and planted himself in front of her . |
| 14 | ‘ We had a very successful festival last year in the same place and many local people came and enjoyed themselves . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He came and threw himself on our bed , shaking all over . |
| 17 | The terrible boredom of her isolation was relieved by the mental exercise in which she told and re-told herself how , in five minutes exactly , she would eat the spinach as a loving sacrifice to Maman , then sick it up , so that her own martyrdom should be apparent . |
| 18 | He strolled and forced himself to stroll . |
| 19 | As the geological cycles repeated themselves for some three thousand million years , as the volcanoes exploded and spent themselves , life in the sea burgeoned into many forms ; but the land still remained barren . |
| 20 | Miss Phoebe noticed and pinched herself together , the tip of her tongue wetting her dry lips as if to help words to slide out more easily , but before they came , her sister was saying loudly : |
| 21 | " Whoever could be listening ? " cried Clara loudly , knowing that Geoffrey A. Machin and Peter Hawtrey had cut Geography in order to do just that , and the other girls clucked and murmured and veiled themselves , thinking such deliberate flouting of the conspiracy of shame to be in doubtful taste . |
| 22 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 23 | Two youths in Texas had tried to kill the college principal , failed and poisoned themselves . |
| 24 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 25 | Then he turned and flung himself into his nanny 's arms . |
| 26 | Kathleen turned and studied herself in the mirror . |
| 27 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 28 | Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty . |
| 29 | Daak turned and hoisted himself into the speeder 's cockpit . |
| 30 | The boy withdrew , yelping with frustration , then turned and threw himself again , like a dog , going for Tuan 's throat . |