Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Llwyd , who has himself won both the chair and crown of the National Eisteddfod twice in three years , worked on the screen adaptation of research he carried out for a blockbusting book on Hedd Wyn 's life . |
| 2 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 3 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 4 | As he found himself speaking out the name into the imprisoned night of the Zoo he wanted to cry out with sadness . |
| 5 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 6 | When the youth swung round he found himself staring down the barrel of Graham 's Beretta . |
| 7 | She found herself looking down the length of her legs , squinting through the V-shape of her feet at the gaggle of sails across the water , to try and isolate ‘ their ’ two . |
| 8 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |
| 9 | Folly 's enthusiasm took over and she found herself pouring out the whole story . |
| 10 | Chalk greeted them and supplied them with beer but , as they drank , they found themselves looking down the barrels of a dozen pistols ! |
| 11 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 12 | Not allowing himself to glance down the passage in the direction of Madeleine 's bedroom , Harry descended the big staircase and went out of the house . |
| 13 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 14 | She could not bring herself to fall down the house stairs . |
| 15 | She and Jim talked together secretly about leaving the house and going off to somewhere ‘ more committed ’ , but Phoebe could not bring herself to give up the only home she knew of , could not bring herself to choose absolutely Jim 's commitments over the women 's commitments . |
| 16 | Imagine yourself breaking up the earth with your hands ; imagine its feel . |
| 17 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 18 | So even if you ca n't see yourself cutting out the pleasures of meat entirely , steer toward poultry and fish rather than steak , lamb and pork , increase your intake of wholegrain cereal foods — such as wholemeal bread , brown rice and pasta — as well as potatoes and pulses , and cut way down on foods which are high in animal fat and/or sugar . |
| 19 | While wrinkles may be beginning to appear on Sun 's ONC — and the market waits on a fully-configured commercial DCE package — NobleNet is positioning itself to mop up the interim business , targeting developers with mixed proprietary and open architectures and non-communicating RPC 's . |
| 20 | Pat herself felt much the same way about that after Ken 's death . |
| 21 | They settled on the terrace , Fei Yen busying herself laying out the table while Wu Tsai sat and made pleasant conversation with Tsu Ma . |
| 22 | Those who could not feed themselves had only the option of closing their mouths against the intruding spoon . |
| 23 | I can not make myself write down the things that Jekyll , with tears in his eyes , confessed to me that night . |
| 24 | By the time she had herself sorted out the animal was standing like a rock and Felipe was grooming it steadily and expertly . |
| 25 | Moving on automatic pilot , she forced herself to tidy up the make-up room , washing sponges and organising the cosmetics she 'd need the following evening when the play had its first-night performance . |
| 26 | With an effort Lisa forced herself to swallow back the feeling and kept her voice devoid of emotion as she countered , ‘ If it 's so appealing then why do you feel the need to suppress it ? ’ |
| 27 | Robyn forced herself to think through the fog , to recall what had happened the night before . |
| 28 | When the kelp industry collapsed , the landlords , who had themselves set up the crofts in the first place , tried actively to get rid of them . |
| 29 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 30 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |