Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent eased herself up with a sigh . |
| 2 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 3 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 4 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 5 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 6 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 7 | Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ? |
| 8 | Rachaela eased herself up from the bed of sheets and pillows , skin and hair . |
| 9 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 10 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 11 | Even Jezrael hauled herself up by the strappings on a crate : silver lights shone through the mists of twilight . |
| 12 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 13 | The rest divided themselves up amongst the remaining transport and set off with only enough petrol to cover the 400 miles to Jalo . |
| 14 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 15 | Aggie pulled herself up from the seat , saying , tersely now , ‘ Well , love , she has . ’ |
| 16 | Aggie pulled herself up from the chair . |
| 17 | Mr Mullings heaved himself up by the back of the bench for a better look . |
| 18 | She put a hand up to touch his lips and gently with the other eased herself up from the sofa . |
| 19 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 20 | Willie propped himself up against the gate gasping for breath while Sam sat nonchalantly by his feet , an easy winner . |
| 21 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 22 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ Was n't that where some bakery foreman dressed himself up in a turban , said he was an Eastern potentate , and persuaded half a dozen women to move in with him as his harem ? |
| 24 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 25 | People setting themselves up as the philosophers and artists and intelligentsia and other people setting themselves up as their assessors ? |
| 26 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |
| 27 | Most academics involved in the study and teaching of local government lined themselves up behind the councils which they perceived to be under threat , in a centrally inspired attack on local democracy and local autonomy . |
| 28 | After two months she loosened her grasp on the subject like a drowning man giving himself up to the sea . |
| 29 | Groaning , Tommy curled himself up into a ball , his hands covering his head . |
| 30 | Then the two ladies gave themselves up to the Favaid-i-Osmaniyeh , a Turkish company running steamers to Trebizond . |