Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grabbed my dressing gown and propelled myself downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 2 | And then he wondered who she was in love with in London , to have kept a watch on another time ; and asked himself why in Christ she had come with him , in that case ; and at the same moment reflected about some plays , for he truly liked the theatre . |
| 3 | Within minutes father returned home , lifted the new-born baby in his arms , and redeemed himself somewhat by pronouncing , " I dedicate this child to the glory of God and the salvation of the world . " |
| 4 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 5 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 6 | Larsen then passed the window pane down to Grant , and lowered himself through in turn . |
| 7 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 8 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 9 | Estonia left the Soviet time zone and aligned itself chronologically with Finland ; Christmas became a public holiday ; and the republican capital , Tallinn , was given its Estonian name ( with two ns rather than one ) for all-union purposes . |
| 10 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 11 | ’ Got himself into it and got himself out of it . ’ |
| 12 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 13 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 14 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 15 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 16 | Dolly limped to the bed and flung herself down on it , stifling hysteria . |
| 17 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 18 | The combination has impelled manufacturing and service enterprises in almost all sectors to search for larger markets abroad , and to establish themselves there in an ‘ insider position ’ ( Best , 1990 : p. 260 ; Milner and Yoffie , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 20 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 21 | In anglerfish ( above left ) the problem is solved because the males are parasitic and attach themselves permanently to females . |
| 22 | It might also be true that an arrangement in which supplementary grants were made in the light of positive evaluation would be an effective incentive for schools to maintain momentum and involve themselves fully in inservice activities . |
| 23 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 24 | It moved sinuously , dancing round its adversary , thrusting with a slender spear and protecting itself gracefully with a brightly-polished shield . |
| 25 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 26 | So he dug a bomb shelter in the back yard , which was fine for his wife and little daughter , William 's mum-to-be , but not so convenient for him when he joined the Merchant Navy and found himself out on Atlantic convoys with the wolf packs at his heels . |
| 27 | And she clapped her hands together , and suddenly they all rose in the air , man , woman , house , glass flasks , heap of dust , and found themselves out on a cold hillside where stood the original little grey man with Otto the hound . |
| 28 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 29 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 30 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |