Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 3 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 4 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 5 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 6 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 7 | For sixthly he invites himself round for a drink one evening . |
| 8 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 9 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 10 | Deliberately she sat herself down at her desk and examined her post . |
| 11 | Her hand stole up to cover his and gradually she rested herself back against him . |
| 12 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 13 | Mothers belong to a small group of people whose success is measured by how well they work themselves out of their job . |
| 14 | Slowly he eased himself on to the side of the tub , drawing her down with him . |
| 15 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 16 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 17 | Then she flung herself on to his stomach , squealing with delight , and he began to tickle her . |
| 18 | Then she flung herself down into her pillows and gave way to tears of frustration and rage . |
| 19 | Then she brought herself out of it . |
| 20 | Then she let herself out of the door and walked through the yard , muttering quietly to Ferry , so that he would know who it was . |
| 21 | Then she let herself out of the farmhouse , and started to walk . |
| 22 | Her eyes closed as her lips parted , then she gave herself up to the joy of feeling his heart begin to thud . |
| 23 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 24 | Sleepily she dragged herself out of bed . |
| 25 | Then he eased himself up from his straddle-legged posture over the small backyard shore , holding the cut artery open while the blood drained away . |
| 26 | Then he eased himself through like a desperado entering a bar and ambled across the office , cracking quips like walnuts . |
| 27 | That was with a Russian rifle ; then he blew himself up with a Russian grenade . |
| 28 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 29 | Then he pulled himself out from under the rugs , feeling ashamed , and walked over to where the bank was free of weeds . |
| 30 | Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats . |