Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won .
2 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
3 We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race .
4 Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door .
5 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 .
6 He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore .
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 He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position .
10 In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn .
11 It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation .
12 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
13 But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever .
14 As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October .
15 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
16 The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition .
17 However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners .
18 He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them !
19 Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose .
20 He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air .
21 Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane .
22 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
23 Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival .
24 He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles .
25 What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ?
26 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 .
27 There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby .
28 As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed .
29 Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat .
30 He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door .
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