Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 2 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 3 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |
| 4 | We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God ’ ( 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 ) . |
| 5 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 6 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 7 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 8 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 9 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 10 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 11 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 12 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 13 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 14 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 15 | I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world . |
| 16 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 17 | Hardly was he around the corner than the man in the parked car climbed out , crossed the road and let himself in to the apartment-block . |
| 18 | I was going to tell her I had taken her keys and let myself back into the house , " he added , " but I arrived too late . |
| 19 | I took a shorter way than Sapt and when I reached the moat , I hid my horse in the trees , tied my rope round a strong tree and let myself down into the water . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I shut the door , crossed the yard , and let myself in through the kitchen . |
| 21 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 22 | Going into the hall , she flung on a coat , pocketed the keys lying on the silver salver , and let herself out into the night . |
| 23 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 24 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 25 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 26 | She pulled herself back together again , and hauled herself out of the cubicle to make full use of the facilities . |
| 27 | ‘ Damn cheek , ’ he muttered , and hitched himself up onto the edge of the couch . |
| 28 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 29 | They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British … |
| 30 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |