Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth .
2 However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge .
3 At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself .
4 She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face .
5 Dragging myself down the unlit hallway floor like a slug , I coiled myself back , back to the back room , and ate and waited .
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