Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 2 | I ask myself why the people do n't live up here in these glades beside the rushing streams . |
| 3 | I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays . |
| 4 | I kicked myself all the way back to the hotel for being an arrant coward , and next day persuaded my companion to return with me to the scene of our defeat and try again . |
| 5 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 6 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 7 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |
| 8 | Well have you sorted yourself out a nice hand out |
| 9 | Sometimes a midshipman 's place was sheer necessity , as in the case of a son of an Angus freeholder named David Lyell who found himself involuntarily a member of the Royal Navy . |
| 10 | You find yourselves together every day of the week , all over the world , all through the winters , getting changed to go out riding … and you do become close . |
| 11 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |
| 12 | She eased herself down a few rungs , praying it would n't collapse under her . |
| 13 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 14 | But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I 've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency . ’ |
| 15 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 16 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 17 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 18 | Without humour to camouflage themselves , they give themselves away every time , and when Zöe said ‘ adult world ’ and ‘ these kids ’ , then , suddenly , I had them , by the scruffiness of their necks ! |
| 19 | next two years trying to sort of get him to bring himself up a bit you know |
| 20 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 21 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 22 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 23 | When he peered into his mirror he saw himself already a little stooped in the shoulders , a little heavy in the body , the full cheeks beginning to hang , their old ruddy colour grown muddy and pale , strands of grey in the short , forked beard and at the high temples , and above all , that permanent , aching double pleat between the long , thin brows , scored a little deeper every day . |
| 24 | Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’ |
| 25 | He was a big man with a fine moustache about the same age as her father had been , Emily guessed , but it was quite apparent that he considered himself quite a dandy . |
| 26 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |