Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 2 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 3 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 4 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 5 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 6 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 7 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 9 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 10 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 11 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 12 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 13 | this Dorothy told me about she said get yourself up to the wool shop Ann and |
| 14 | I 've got it , I 've got some how , but this wool threaded through here , she said get yourself up to the wool shop at Stock Hill they 've got this cotton look stuff in all colours for er fifty pence a ball |
| 15 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 16 | In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London . |
| 17 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 18 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 19 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 20 | A second later he had levered himself up off the bed , striding away to answer the call . |