Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought .
2 He sighed and flung himself down on the chair .
3 Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother .
4 She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling .
5 Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane .
6 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
7 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 .
8 Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch .
9 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 .
10 I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ Well , I shut the door , crossed the yard , and let myself in through the kitchen .
16 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 .
17 Going into the hall , she flung on a coat , pocketed the keys lying on the silver salver , and let herself out into the night .
18 She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door .
19 Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office .
20 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 .
21 She pulled herself back together again , and hauled herself out of the cubicle to make full use of the facilities .
22 ‘ Damn cheek , ’ he muttered , and hitched himself up onto the edge of the couch .
23 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 .
24 They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British …
25 Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ?
26 It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession .
27 Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt .
28 On the bank , the trumpet twittered again , and the water became full of spray and hurtling bodies as shoremen left their attack and threw themselves back on the sand .
29 She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks .
30 She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows .
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