Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] up [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 | 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 . " |
| 3 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 4 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | next two years trying to sort of get him to bring himself up a bit you know |
| 7 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |