Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , you might slowly count yourself up from 1 to 5 , suggesting to yourself that when you reach the number 5 you will be wide awake , feeling refreshed and at peace . |
| 2 | He 'll be cheering himself up in one or the other place by now without a backward glance . |
| 3 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 4 | Betrayed by that shit Sarah Walker who was once his landlord 's daughter , plunged into crippling debt , mocked by polite society and dinner-table assassins , tortured by a cancer of the stomach , he could still prop himself up on one elbow in a room as shabby as this one and say exultantly ‘ Well , I 've had a happy life ! ’ |
| 5 | He lifted himself on to one elbow , looking down at her ; a finger of light from the street-lamp outside crept between the curtains , touching her face . |
| 6 | He lifted himself on to one elbow and looked down at her . |
| 7 | Suppressing a grunt of pain , Defries lifted herself on to one elbow and looked round . |
| 8 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 9 | Project yourself back to 1967 . |
| 10 | Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens . |
| 11 | Or you might repeat the word ‘ re-lax ’ several times , then slowly count yourself down from 10 to 1 . |
| 12 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 13 | He raised himself on to one elbow so that he could look down into her eyes . |
| 14 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 15 | At last , Rourke moved , propping himself up on one elbow so that he could gaze down at her . |
| 16 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 17 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 18 | He used the footholds at first until shelf twenty-seven then pulled himself up to sixty-nine with the rope . |
| 19 | The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 20 | ‘ All right , ’ she concedes , slightly breathless , dealing with a shirt that has unaccountably unbuttoned itself , before letting herself out of one door and into the other . |
| 21 | Despite their double handicap , Everton pulled themselves back to 3-2 with two Stuart Barlow goals before Sinton completed his treble two minutes from time , and Francis added : ‘ At 3-0 my players thought they 'd won it . |
| 22 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 23 | Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom . |
| 24 | He awoke towards evening , put on fresh clothes and took himself out to one of the modest eating houses that lined the bank of the river on either side of the harbour . |
| 25 | And I 've cut myself down to one . |
| 26 | Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who gave himself up in 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] , was charged on Sept. 24 with treason , espionage and corruption . |
| 27 | And he 'd er worked himself up from one lace machine until he 'd got twelve . |
| 28 | Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet . |
| 29 | She squatted beside him , as he propped himself up on one elbow to scowl back at her . |
| 30 | She propped herself up on one elbow . |