Example sentences of "[pn reflx] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 2 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 3 | Pushing himself off the wall , he grabbed at it , missed , and nearly fell . |
| 4 | He swung himself off the bed and took off his pyjamas . |
| 5 | When Hank was fifteen , his best friend , Tommy Moore , committed suicide by quietly dropping himself off the railway bridge into the icy waters of the North Saskatchewan . |
| 6 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 7 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 8 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 9 | JOHN SCULLEY CROSSES HIMSELF OFF THE LIST |
| 10 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 11 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 12 | Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door . |
| 13 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 14 | George shrugged and nearly slid himself off the chair in which he was slumped . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 16 | Swinging himself off the bed , Guy strode across the room . |
| 17 | Like Lucifer falling out of Heaven , he threw himself off the back of the pageant , not caring that the paving stones lay three leagues below . |
| 18 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 19 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 20 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |
| 21 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 22 | Before her marvelled eyes the Southern Cross lifted itself off the horizon and hung glowing , silent and fierce . |
| 23 | I had begun to rise earlier and earlier , sometimes watching the sun lift itself off the horizon , first red , then yellow , then white . |
| 24 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 25 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 26 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 27 | After a couple of minutes Phoebe recovered her breath ; she pushed herself off the wall with her hands and went through the stairwell doorway into the green-painted corridor . |
| 28 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 29 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 30 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |