Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 2 | Larsen then passed the window pane down to Grant , and lowered himself through in turn . |
| 3 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 4 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 5 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 6 | ’ Got himself into it and got himself out of it . ’ |
| 7 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 8 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 9 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 10 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 11 | Dolly limped to the bed and flung herself down on it , stifling hysteria . |
| 12 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 13 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 14 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 15 | So he dug a bomb shelter in the back yard , which was fine for his wife and little daughter , William 's mum-to-be , but not so convenient for him when he joined the Merchant Navy and found himself out on Atlantic convoys with the wolf packs at his heels . |
| 16 | And she clapped her hands together , and suddenly they all rose in the air , man , woman , house , glass flasks , heap of dust , and found themselves out on a cold hillside where stood the original little grey man with Otto the hound . |
| 17 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 18 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The men are trying to catch mine and hook themselves on to me as ‘ guides ’ . |
| 21 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 24 | Gingerly he reached forward , found a wall and levered himself up against it . |
| 25 | I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world . |
| 26 | Get a a small piece , you could buy a I think it was called a side of leather or a whole piece of leather and cut yourselves out of it.And erm leather was n't cheap even in those days , it varied in thickness . |
| 27 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 28 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 29 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 30 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |