Example sentences of "[pn reflx] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can take yer bonnet off and sit yerself down . |
| 2 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 3 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 4 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 5 | This does not mean we have to put ourselves down all the time : this would just be false humility , which is another subtle form of pride . |
| 6 | On the other hand , putting ourselves down — feeling ‘ less than ’ — is just another way of expressing the Ego . |
| 7 | While the adults sat on their forms we sat ourselves down on an assortment of broken chairs borrowed from the neighbours . |
| 8 | We race across Lliwedd on frost rimed ledges and hurl ourselves down towards Llydaw 's outlet , slipping on frozen streamlets , crashing down scree , pausing to drink the silence . |
| 9 | The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . |
| 10 | Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time . |
| 11 | We 've , we 've , we 've run ourselves down far too long , and er I think this is true of us as individuals , |
| 12 | Yeah , we we have run ourselves down , yeah , quite you 're quite true . |
| 13 | Professionally , we let ourselves down away from home before Christmas . ’ |
| 14 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 15 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 16 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 17 | Jack came rushing down from his room on the top floor and threw himself down beside Bunty , cradling her head . |
| 18 | He flung himself down on my bed , trying it out in different positions . |
| 19 | He was built like a brick shithouse and he plonked himself down right in front of the stage . |
| 20 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 21 | The blanket had come unrolled and twice he brought himself down with it . |
| 22 | But he finally got there and settled himself down and lifted his baton . |
| 23 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 24 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 25 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 26 | After washing himself down he shaved , trimmed his moustache , brushed his teeth , gargled and then greased and combed his hair . |
| 27 | The anxious individual becomes an expert at putting himself down . |
| 28 | Then , very slowly , fearful of making the slightest movement that might start the surface on an avalanche course and himself down the incline , he stretched out his arm towards Sheila . |
| 29 | The chamber was empty so Corbett went straight to his room , threw himself down upon his cot and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 30 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |