Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 4 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 5 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 6 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 7 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 8 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 9 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 10 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But as she sang , the voice seemed to lift itself out of the setting , out of the plot , and become a performance in itself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 16 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 17 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 18 | Unable to pass through the flame , he managed to cast himself back onto the side of the platform he had entered from . |
| 19 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 20 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 21 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 22 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 23 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 24 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 25 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 26 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 27 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 28 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 29 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 30 | I had got myself down on the floor of the Superdome Convention Hall to make a video . |