Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] up on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 2 | I propped myself up on my elbow and looked at him . |
| 3 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 4 | In answer she lifted herself up on tiptoe and leaned against his tall , firm frame . |
| 5 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 6 | She pulled herself up on her walking-frame and shuffled off , pushing it in front of her , towards the kitchen . |
| 7 | She pulled herself up on the bed and , kneeling in such a way that George could see her breasts to their best advantage , took his phallus into her mouth . |
| 8 | She propped herself up on one elbow . |
| 9 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 10 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |
| 11 | She pushed herself up on one elbow and , a strong arm behind her back , he helped her into a sitting position . |
| 12 | She pushed herself up on one elbow and said impishly , ‘ The bread smells wonderful . ’ |
| 13 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 14 | Maura felt him push himself up on his arms . |
| 15 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 16 | He eased himself up on the pillow and examined the breakfast tray . |
| 17 | She squatted beside him , as he propped himself up on one elbow to scowl back at her . |
| 18 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |