Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
2 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
3 | Or you can go flying with Dumbo and lose yourself in the wonderland of ‘ Alice 's Curious Labyrinth . ’ . |
4 | Swallow a pint instead , and lose yourself in the waves of The Little Fish . |
5 | Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle . |
6 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
7 | In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up . |
8 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
9 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
10 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
11 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
12 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
13 | ‘ My poor dears , come and warm yourselves by the fire . |
14 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
15 | ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’ |
16 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
17 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
18 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
19 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
20 | Peter walked up the concrete path and let himself into the house . |
21 | Dean climbed off the roof and let himself into the car the way he had come . |
22 | Lorton glanced over his shoulder and let himself into the flat with the key he had found on Celia 's mantelpiece . |
23 | He took out a key and let himself into the building . |
24 | I went up the stone steps into the street , and let myself into the house . |
25 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
26 | He stayed beside the car as she crossed the narrow pavement , but the shadowed gaze followed her as she shakily climbed the steps to the door of the house , slid her key into the lock with a trembling hand and let herself into the hallway . |
27 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
28 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
29 | When it 's as warm as it is tonight , you 'll be able to leave the hatch open and imagine yourselves in the heart of Venice . " |
30 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |