Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 2 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 3 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 4 | I push myself off from the wall and walk across . |
| 5 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 6 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 7 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 8 | The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment . |
| 9 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 10 | It was six o'clock when I let myself out of the house . |
| 11 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 12 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 13 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 14 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’ |
| 16 | I dolled myself up after the bath . |
| 17 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 18 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 19 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 20 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 21 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 22 | Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire . |
| 23 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |
| 24 | Until I had myself out of the frame , it was n't a good idea to drag anyone into the case who was n't there already . |
| 25 | As I dragged myself back to the Duck and Forceps , I suddenly felt a strange empathy with the great Mike Channon . |
| 26 | I howl , and I throw myself down on the floor . |
| 27 | I settle myself down at the mirror . |
| 28 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 29 | She flung herself out of the kitchen and along the passage . |
| 30 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |