Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After six o'clock , when the cheap rate had started , Karen King let herself out of the side door of Aunt Jane 's bungalow and walked the quarter of a mile to the public call box . |
| 2 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 3 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 4 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 5 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 6 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 7 | A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats . |
| 8 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 9 | Experience will show you how to readjust your programme to get yourself back on the right track . |
| 10 | Feeling one step from death , Branson dragged himself out to the car and drove quickly through the early morning traffic to the hospital in Wimbledon . |
| 11 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |
| 12 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 13 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 14 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 15 | Léonie lowered herself on to the chair beside the bed , her magazine on her lap . |
| 16 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 17 | Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ? |
| 18 | Rachaela eased herself up from the bed of sheets and pillows , skin and hair . |
| 19 | Cornelius took himself off to the telephone box . |
| 20 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 21 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 22 | It seems that it might take a great deal of commitment and determination to drag yourself out in the pouring rain or snow , until you think about how much you miss your husband when you can not even touch him for nearly two weeks . |
| 23 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 24 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 25 | Even Jezrael hauled herself up by the strappings on a crate : silver lights shone through the mists of twilight . |
| 26 | Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance . |
| 27 | When she had finished , he motioned Tam forward first because he was the oldest , and the twelve-year-old boy rushed eagerly across the room to fling himself down on the altar mat . " |
| 28 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 29 | Duncan let himself out of the car as Myeloski walked round to him . |
| 30 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |