Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 2 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |
| 3 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 4 | With a muffled groan she rolled on to her side and screwed herself up into a tight ball , alternately hot and shivery with emotion . |
| 5 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 6 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 7 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 8 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 9 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 10 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 11 | She slid her fingers from her friend 's grasp and pulled herself up in the bed , a smile lighting up the ageing beauty of her face . |
| 12 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 13 | She swung her bottom south-south-west and steered herself off up the path . |
| 14 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 15 | She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga . |
| 16 | After further disagreements with Hoveyda , Zahedi left the Foreign Ministry and took himself off to his fathers house in Switzerland . |
| 17 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 18 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 19 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 20 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 21 | She was like an experienced woman , the way she moved her body and opened herself up to him . |
| 22 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 23 | He moved with a lithe easy grace across the room and stretched himself out in an easy chair . |
| 24 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 25 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |
| 26 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 27 | Alexandra dug her toes into fissures in the canyon wall and pulled herself on to the platform which was dry and flat and sloped slightly towards the sea . |
| 28 | Gingerly he reached forward , found a wall and levered himself up against it . |
| 29 | I took a shorter way than Sapt and when I reached the moat , I hid my horse in the trees , tied my rope round a strong tree and let myself down into the water . |
| 30 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |