Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 2 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 3 | In London , you can index the mean income of the households by the state of the gutters outside ; in the area where the archive of Ephemera lies in boxes , waiting for its eventual home , there 's a kind of mangy green lozenge next to the local church where the derelicts hang around , propping themselves up on the park bench in a drift of beer cans and double strength cider bottles and blown crisp packets . |
| 4 | Before dawn , I was in the sleeping-bag , propping myself up on an elbow , Bible in one hand , torch in the other , flicking the beam periodically to the right of my legs , where the small aluminium pan and stove were struggling to boil water for tea . |
| 5 | The women in this case are suspects in their own right , especially if we take notice of that boy , though from what you–say I ca n't see Anna 's mother hauling herself up on the scaffolding behind Benson 's , or making a run for it when the boy turned up . ’ |
| 6 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 7 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 8 | Another goal I thought was certain was Wallace 's solo run on the keeper ( I was the one hoisting myself up on the terrace barrier screaming as it happened ) coming in on his right . |
| 9 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 10 | The Sheffield Wednesday striker was livid at finding himself back on the bench just 28 minutes after being sent on as a second-half substitute at Norwich on Saturday . |
| 11 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 12 | Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage . |
| 13 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 14 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Blake ! ’ she said with enthusiasm , going over and plopping herself down on the bench beside him . |
| 16 | ‘ Be quiet yourself , ’ he said , stretching himself out on the uncomfortable horsehair sofa . |
| 17 | ‘ I promise you that we will have a long talk — and sort out everything between us , once and for all , ’ he murmured , burying his face in her blonde hair for a moment , before raising himself up on an elbow to gaze down at her lovely face . |