Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 2 | And teenage boys spend an hour sprucing themselves up in front of the mirror before hunting for a date , say market analysts Mintel . |
| 3 | Sarah drew herself up , full of indignation that he should presume to judge her . |
| 4 | Lady Isabella drew herself up , resting her elbows on the arms of her chair . |
| 5 | Olga drew herself up proudly . |
| 6 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 7 | Adrift in a new world of rapture , it came as the profoundest shock to Paige to feel Travis push himself up and away from her . |
| 8 | Meredith drew herself up . |
| 9 | The prosecution lawyer drew himself up , and launched into his opening attack . |
| 10 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 11 | Anthony Smith demonstrated how spina bifida sufferer Mo Langton , 20 , puts his hands on his knees to lever himself up . |
| 12 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 13 | Ma flashes Pa an amazed look ; Pa 's frown merely deepens as the Monster hurls itself up , over the tray of the high chair to belly flop on the table in a wreckage of china and dream topping . |
| 14 | They — ’ Toby pulled himself up . |
| 15 | The MI5 man seemed to suddenly shake his bulk to wake himself up and remind himself that the chief inspector was still in the car with him . |
| 16 | He was forced to fly to Colombo last month to rescue a New Zealand tour after a Tamil suicide bomber blew himself up just 50 yards from the Kiwis ' team hotel . |
| 17 | The superintendent eased herself up with a sigh . |
| 18 | Bernice propped herself up and took a bite . |
| 19 | As a result , three prominent members of the Medellín drug cartel gave themselves up [ see pp. 37914 ; 37957 ] . |
| 20 | He was afraid that if Tammuz wound himself up further he 'd cause the rotor to crash . |
| 21 | Its leaves , although they might be petals , hardly quiver at all as three very small and very golden frogs pull themselves up and gaze in astonishment at the fresh clear water . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Angalo pushed himself up on his elbows . |
| 24 | Angalo pushed himself up on to his hands and knees . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 27 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 28 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
| 29 | Then on Friday they would stream back to Cork from all over the province of Munster to clean themselves up , don their best clothes , and go to synagogue to greet the Sabbath . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |