Example sentences of "[pn reflx] up [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ?
2 Yes hopefully yes , we need to get three points , and we 've got to get ourselves up a little bit further up the table and you know , get the pressure off us a bit .
3 We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm .
4 Because personal power is the promotion of self , we send positive data on ourselves up the hierarchy and forget to send the negative data — that is , we tell our superiors how good we are .
5 next two years trying to sort of get him to bring himself up a bit you know
6 His resolve had been to give himself up every evening to a period of deep meditation .
7 Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope .
8 Masklin pulled himself up the wire and on to the table , feeling very exposed .
9 Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth .
10 Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream .
11 Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’
12 Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck .
13 She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden .
14 Rolling over , he assumed a sitting position and used his heels to push himself up the slates on his backside until he was seated astride the apex of the roof .
15 ‘ We do deep breathing exercises instead , ’ said Otley , throwing out his chest to expand his lungs , his paunch moving itself up a notch .
16 Then it will wing itself up a bit and fall on to me .
17 So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream .
18 Lou seemed to think she 'd have dolled herself up a bit before he came .
19 When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room .
20 With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps .
21 She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love .
22 Do you think you could spruce yourself up a little ?
23 So if I were you , I 'd nip over to the Company Health Club for a couple of hours , tidy yourself up a bit , and see what they can do to lick your wounds . ’
24 Pull yourself up the slope with the pick head and then keep your balance by sticking the other end into the ground .
25 I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines .
26 A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . "
27 Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) .
28 Well , they give , I , I do n't know , it 's the way they feel when you put them on , they sort of hold themselves up a bit better and
  Next page