Example sentences of "[pn reflx] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope . |
| 4 | Masklin pulled himself up the wire and on to the table , feeling very exposed . |
| 5 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 6 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck . |
| 9 | She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 13 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pull yourself up the slope with the pick head and then keep your balance by sticking the other end into the ground . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . " |