Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 4 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 5 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 6 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 7 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 8 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 9 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 10 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 11 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 12 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 13 | Pam Dixon 's here , the bearded wonder has taken himself off for the weekend |
| 14 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 15 | Next morning dawns bright and clear ; the storm has blown itself out in the night . |
| 16 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 17 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 18 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 19 | And monthly-payment forms of credit , also generally cheaper , tend to rule themselves out for the reasons given above . |
| 20 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But as she sang , the voice seemed to lift itself out of the setting , out of the plot , and become a performance in itself . |
| 24 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 25 | Not only to advocate the giving of second chances but also to say that I hope that Shaun and the rest manage to get themselves out of the rut they 've dug for themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ I like their style of football and would like to test myself out in the Sydney Premiership . |
| 27 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 28 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 29 | NORTH Down have an extra special reason for wishing to haul themselves out of the Harp International League at the third attempt … next season heralds the Comber club 's centenary year . |
| 30 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |