Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 flung myself out of bed and into her arms . |
| 5 | I rub myself up against him . |
| 6 | I push myself off from the wall and walk across . |
| 7 | I drag myself out of bed each night to start the day — and with what ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the age of 24 I found myself back in Corntonvale prison , this time doing a 5 month sentence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 12 | Oh God , what have I let myself in for , I said to myself that night . |
| 13 | What have I let myself in for here ? |
| 14 | What have I let myself in for ? |
| 15 | I drew myself up to my full 4 feet 8 inches , flared my pupils at the teacher , picked up my scarlet skirt , Vivien Leigh-style , and , with a thud , parquet met felt and felt met parquet . |
| 16 | The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment . |
| 17 | Why should I dress myself up in clothes that are not mine ? |
| 18 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 19 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 20 | It was six o'clock when I let myself out of the house . |
| 21 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 22 | I hauled myself up from whatever I was lying on . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 25 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't believe I knocked myself out for that flake . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been a man in total control all my life , and I find myself out of control around you . |
| 28 | What exactly was I letting myself in for ? |
| 29 | They let me to — I talked myself out of it . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |