Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 2 | Whittingham joined Pompey four years ago after buying himself out of the Army for £450 . |
| 3 | Crucifixion was death by suffocation : the prisoner alternated between pushing himself upright in order to breathe and sagging back to rest and relieve the pain . |
| 4 | Barber had an exceptional flair for expressing himself fluently in crystal clear prose . |
| 5 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 6 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 7 | Labour MPs are now , of course , thrashing through the business of submitting themselves winsomely to their local parties . |
| 8 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 9 | Suddenly the idea of tearing herself away from Jack 's warm , firm body , even for a minute , seemed heartbreaking . |
| 10 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 11 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 12 | Some plasmids are capable of splicing themselves seamlessly into a chromosome . |
| 13 | Keeping warm is a vital part of keeping yourself well in winter . |
| 14 | But himself said this would happen , because I was always washin' her bloody hair and keepin' her face scab-free , unlicing her an' the rest , instead of gettin' meself out to work . |
| 15 | I was too occupied in explaining myself legally to that rather brutal man , Dalziel , then in explaining myself emotionally to Jenny , to have much chance of explaining myself rationally to you . |
| 16 | She could not afford to hire a taxi , so decided to take the risk of driving herself home at about 10.30 p.m . |
| 17 | This deed somehow necessitated a second manoeuvre , that of picking myself up off the floor . |
| 18 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 19 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 20 | The songs are good , and Procession are not afraid of immersing themselves totally in their music , but perhaps a more measured approach might be worthwhile . |
| 21 | Otherwise marginalized groups run the risk of theorizing themselves out of existence . |
| 22 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |
| 23 | 3.5 inch drives seem less prone to problems , but you could try any of these ways of getting yourself out of trouble if you use both formats . |
| 24 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 25 | It was just the wretched sort of life that might so easily be theirs : the cramped lodgings , the worry , the sense of wearing yourself out against life … |
| 26 | ‘ The film lifestyle is one of cutting yourself off from your base and your friends , your identity even . |
| 27 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 28 | Wivenhoe 's only chance of hauling themselves back into the match came in the 48th minute when Gray was pulled down by keeper Caskey , who then saved the spot kick from Abrahams . |
| 29 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 30 | ‘ So it was all set up , and your father 's known habit of shutting himself up with his scripts made the deception all the easier . |