Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 2 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 3 | But himself said this would happen , because I was always washin' her bloody hair and keepin' her face scab-free , unlicing her an' the rest , instead of gettin' meself out to work . |
| 4 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 5 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 6 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 7 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 8 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 9 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 10 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road and into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 11 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 12 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 13 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 14 | What have we let ourselves in for ! |
| 15 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 16 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 17 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 18 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |
| 19 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 20 | Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for . |
| 21 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 22 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 23 | The Admiral jerked himself back into consciousness of his surroundings . |
| 24 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 26 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 27 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 28 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 29 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 30 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |