Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 2 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 3 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 4 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 5 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 6 | He got up slowly from his chair to stretch himself and went to the window , overlooking the back car lot . |
| 7 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 8 | He wrapped a short raincoat around himself and ran up the front path . |
| 9 | Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper . |
| 10 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 11 | Slowly he righted himself and took off the mask , although she could not see his face for she was not looking at him . |
| 12 | He moved back himself and leaned against the wall , studying them . |
| 13 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 14 | When his father was absent , he would come here himself and stand beside the pool , staring down into the water as if emptying himself into its depths , letting his thoughts become the fish , drifting , gliding slowly , almost listlessly in the water , then rising swiftly to breach the surface , imbued with sudden purpose . |
| 15 | Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966 , tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma , who were staying with Gabrielle 's father on his farm in Kent . |
| 16 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 17 | Despite some unnecessary barracking from supporters , Mr Singh certainly enjoyed himself and got behind the team . |
| 18 | Those members of the British Section delegation who had survived previous ICMs said nothing and waited for the strain to show . |
| 19 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Certainly not … to catch me here ! ’ said the third , lifting on the breeze above me and hovering over the top of the pole where the trap was . |
| 21 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 22 | But my dogs have always , much rather come shopping with me and sit in the , . |
| 23 | He rushed past me and went into the nearest building . |
| 24 | She put out her tongue at me and went to the kitchen . |
| 25 | She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted . |
| 26 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 27 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 28 | He turned his back on me and walked into the room . |
| 29 | Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club . |
| 30 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |