Example sentences of "[verb] up [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 2 | John Williams , prosecuting , said she woke up to find herself in a hotel room with her hands tied behind her back . |
| 3 | That the little girl who had sat on her granny 's knee and smiled and laughed , would grow up to give herself to anyone and everyone who asked her ? |
| 4 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 5 | Eventually the Goblin runs out of energy and collapses in an exhausted pile with a silly grin on his face , or he crashes straight into a tree or other obstacle and ends up throttling himself with his chain . |
| 6 | We give up seeing ourselves as ‘ the dream child ’ , ‘ the shadow child ’ , ‘ the rejected child ’ , or any of the other wounded images that affect our relationships with others . |
| 7 | The IBF 's latest ‘ world ratings ’ have O'Toole at No 6 and Castro at No 9 so if Fidel keeps on winning he could wind up fighting himself for their title ! |
| 8 | She so obviously had n't given up stuffing herself with Salmon 's cream buns . |
| 9 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 10 | In 1979 fourteen committees were set up to concern themselves with the work of specific ( or in some cases two specific ) government departments . |
| 11 | I 'm not careful enough about the details , and then I end up kicking myself for not , like , stressing what was supposed to happen . ’ |
| 12 | Keep your wits about you tomorrow or you 'll forget something important and end up kicking yourself for being so stupid . |
| 13 | You are right to be concerned about protein levels , but without a very thorough understanding of canine nutritional science , you will end up tying yourself in knots . |
| 14 | She is lined up to play herself in a Hollywood movie about a sex scandal MP . |
| 15 | The day after tomorrow they 'll wake up to find themselves in Madeira . ’ |
| 16 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 17 | I tried new drivers — Armenians , Indians , Arabs , blacks — but ended up driving myself in a rented car . |
| 18 | One issue deserving of attention if only because of the importance it assumes in the United States implementation literatures is the ‘ special ’ agency set up to concern itself with policy making and implementation in a specifically limited policy field . |