Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 2 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 3 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 4 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 6 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 7 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 8 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 9 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 10 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 11 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 12 | He sat down to write himself out of insolvency with a series of new novels starting with A Fair Maid of Perth . |
| 13 | In the opening sequence the Poet is so concerned with the Friend and his future existence that he seems to write himself out of the picture . |
| 14 | Sceptical officers thought he was trying to pass himself off as motor racing 's world champ . |
| 15 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 16 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 17 | In a radio broadcast earlier this week , Mr Shevardnadze echoed the public mood in most areas of the country expressing optimism that Georgia was now starting to pull itself out of political and economic crisis . |
| 18 | The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so . |
| 19 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 20 | There were moments during the Mass when the litanies and prayers , the censers swinging to and fro and the smell of incense made her feel lightheaded , and she was able to believe that she was not really present , not really being married at all , and that at any moment she might open her eyes and awake , to find herself back in Corcaguiney , with the wind ruffling the water across Dingle Harbour and the cloud shadows sailing over the mountain . |
| 21 | She stepped sideways , she did n't want to pull away from him but all the same this time she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed with Cati , dreaming of sweetness and lovers ' words , but he pressed close to her , and said , ‘ You ca n't go yet , not yet . |
| 22 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 23 | She made an attempt to pull herself out of his reach . |
| 24 | Merrill made a determined effort to pull herself out of the glow induced by the wine and Luke 's compliments . |
| 25 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 26 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 27 | She gave a little shake of her head as if to pull herself back to reality . |
| 28 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 29 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 30 | Who were you hoping to pass yourself off as ? ’ |