Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've woken up and found myself shouting and woke my , wake woke myself up I wake myself up . |
| 32 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 33 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 34 | Jekyll lived in fear of waking up and finding himself in Hyde 's body , with all Hyde 's evil passions . |
| 35 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Why could n't he rise up and assert himself , shout at her , curse her , take off a great belt with a brazen buckle on it , like some muscular labouring man and beat hell out of her ? |
| 38 | Come up and give yourself a bit of a wash and we 'll put it on . |
| 39 | She got up and poured herself a glass of whisky without asking , and my mother did n't seem to mind . |
| 40 | She got up and poured herself another slug of whisky . |
| 41 | Madame Gautier held the small silver tray of chocolates out for Ellie , who unable to resist , got up and helped herself to another one . |
| 42 | ‘ You 're not on the list ’ — who cares , pay up and enjoy yourself |
| 43 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
| 44 | You can come up and let yourself go — shout about and that and muck about . |
| 45 | He stood up and shook himself , like a dog emerging from water . |
| 46 | The human bowling ball , if human he was , stood up and shook himself . |
| 47 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 48 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |
| 49 | She promised violent action if the social workers put one foot on the stairs , and went to get the children up and dressed herself , accompanied and watched by a policewoman ; then her eight-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son were taken away without further comment , but the policewoman encouraged the children to take some clothes and other possessions with them . |
| 50 | He longed for the dream to end , desperate to wake up and find himself safe in bed . |
| 51 | The Inner Man PUSH , PUSH AND PUSH OFF Put your feet up and pour yourself a brandy and soda — women want you out of the delivery room |
| 52 | English scholars , all classicists or ex-classicists , hurried to catch up and prove themselves the equals of the Germans in philological and textual skill . |
| 53 | Hearing the slithering sound behind her she jumped up and pulled herself through the roof . |
| 54 | He came up and introduced himself . |
| 55 | The khalifa whom Balvinder had pointed out came up and introduced himself . |
| 56 | Shep got up and gave himself a good stretch . |
| 57 | Space-travel , science , the whole world waking up and stretching itself A new age is beginning . |
| 58 | Although it was one of the train 's first stops and there were never many passengers on board , the people waiting at Raxaul always crammed around the doors , clambering up and forcing themselves in . |
| 59 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |