Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 2 | He swung himself on to his horse , and with an airy wave clattered into the darkness . |
| 3 | By the time Daak managed to haul himself on to his couch , the floor was angled at forty-five degrees , and tilting faster . |
| 4 | He hurled himself on to his face . |
| 5 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 6 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 7 | He bowed reluctantly , and took himself off to his post . |
| 8 | Poor David Lawrence the ball does seem to follow him around whenever he 's bowling as well he , ease himself back to his position now two more to , he moves on to eleven . |
| 9 | He got himself back to his flat and he turned the lights on in every room . |
| 10 | The ecological problem forced itself on to our consciousness . |
| 11 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 12 | A few moments later , Holly-jack flung herself on to her lover 's blackthorn chest . |
| 13 | Then she flung herself on to his stomach , squealing with delight , and he began to tickle her . |
| 14 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 15 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 16 | This was not entirely true of the matronly middle aged woman and her elderly male companion sitting three seats away from me , as she applied herself methodically to his penis . |
| 17 | She lumbered out of bed , reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom . |
| 18 | Bechor J. who gave the judgment of the court stated : ‘ English common law holds that a woman must submit herself totally to her husband . |
| 19 | In order to pay back , to compensate Ethel Mitchell , she had put herself up to her neck in debt . |
| 20 | Wild pleasure streaked to every nerve-end in Caroline 's body , the reaction intensifying as he moved his mouth to the other breast , scorching such shafts of response through her that she caught his dark head in her hands , convulsively raking her fingers through the silky curls of his hair , arching herself up to his touch . |
| 21 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 22 | She stabbed a book with a dangerous index finger , and took herself back to her desk , to survey her class and see that no-one had taken a whiff of pot while her attention had been distracted . |
| 23 | could not temper itself , but needs she must bewray her outrageous lust , and in an inconvenient time of the year , despising all discommodities of the way and weather , and all danger of thieves , she betook herself headlong to her journey with such a company as no man of any honest degree would have adventured his life and his goods among them . |
| 24 | You 've got to bring yourself down to their level . |
| 25 | That way I could feel justified in keeping something back , in not handing myself over to your power completely — because there was just too much feeling involved . |
| 26 | Ricky Ross from Deacon Blue talks about not wanting to seduce the audience : ‘ I do n't like the idea of people throwing themselves over to our music … abandonment is a great idea but it worries me because it 's all so power-orientated . ’ |
| 27 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 28 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |
| 29 | So , ignoring Mala 's reproaches , I took myself back to my cabin and the galacvid 's more entertaining screen material . |
| 30 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |