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

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1 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
2 We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore .
6 He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them .
7 He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position .
8 In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn .
9 It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation .
10 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
11 As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October .
12 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
13 The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition .
14 However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners .
15 He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them !
16 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 .
17 Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane .
18 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
19 Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival .
20 What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ?
21 It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 .
22 There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby .
23 As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed .
24 Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat .
25 He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door .
26 Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt .
27 He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks .
28 Duncan let himself out of the car as Myeloski walked round to him .
29 Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door .
30 When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door .
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