Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius sat himself down and regarded the envelopes with suspicion . |
| 2 | I was sick all over him and he cleaned me up and himself up and emptied the bowl and then I did the same thing again . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards , the home side broke away for Shearer to be sent sprawling by Stejskal , before picking himself up and converting the spot kick . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington . |
| 5 | ( In a different way , the teacher must also know when to hold himself back and allow the student 's personality to flower . ) |
| 6 | Somewhere in Lincolnshire , an old man 's beard entwines itself around and covers a sign reading : ‘ Danger — Unmanned Level Crossing Ahead With Freight Trains Full Of Nuclear Waste Passing Frequently . ’ |
| 7 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 8 | She dusts herself off and rejoins the group . |
| 9 | Bernice propped herself up and took a bite . |
| 10 | And yet , when she finally , despairingly , screwed herself up and loosed the small words into the drawing room air , her mother said yes . |
| 11 | She heaved herself out and opened the trunk to display several large paper bags full of groceries . |
| 12 | When I did return , I locked myself in and heaved the great oak table against the door and fastened the windows . |
| 13 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 14 | Now here comes your father , so sit yourself down and eat a decent meal for a change . ’ |
| 15 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
| 16 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 17 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 18 | It is about time that Government departments sorted themselves out and adopted the same approach to business taxation |