Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , er he took a couple of steps away from the bed , er then I told him to lower himself down onto his knees and then eventually lower himself down onto his chest , down onto his front . |
| 2 | If you 're on your own , treat his display with cool disdain and simply ignore him as you walk past ; or strongly assert yourself and tell him to cover himself up at once — but remember , no threats . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 4 | " You 'd be a lot better with less ale in your stomach , " she remarked , and left him to get himself out of his bed . |
| 5 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 6 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 7 | They watched him pull himself out beside a flowering clump of figwort , gripping one of the tough stems in his teeth , shake a shower of drops out of his fur and scutter into the alder bushes . |
| 8 | Maura felt him push himself up on his arms . |
| 9 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 10 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 11 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 12 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |
| 13 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 14 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 15 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 16 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 17 | He got himself back to his flat and he turned the lights on in every room . |
| 18 | Unable to resist any longer , he flung himself back at Robert . |
| 19 | He flung himself down on my bed , trying it out in different positions . |
| 20 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 21 | And he flung himself down on his bed , his hands over his ears . |
| 22 | He shuts himself off from his two young daughters and composes laments to his dead wife . |
| 23 | There was a legless young man on a cushioned board to which roller-skates had been fitted , and he propelled himself along with hands encased in old cigar-boxes . |
| 24 | OPERA giant Luciano Pavarotti looked a picture of massive dedication yesterday as he built himself up for his latest role . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Nicklaus took note of Cathy 's instruction , and later gave her the credit when he found himself back to his old form in that week 's skins ' game . |
| 28 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 29 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 30 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |