Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 2 | As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me . |
| 3 | It was a nice flat with a good view and as I let myself into Stuart Street , I wished I could remember how to find it again . |
| 4 | Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you . |
| 5 | It 's raining heavily as I wrap myself in my gascape and move further to the back of the trench . |
| 6 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 9 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |
| 10 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 11 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
| 12 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 13 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 14 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 15 | And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 17 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 18 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 19 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 20 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
| 21 | That way the syncro system will be pumping power to all four bits of rubber as you throw yourself into corners with all the wild confidence of a kiddie in a bouncy castle . |
| 22 | As you flung yourself on the bed , with legs spread wide apart , you cupped your rosebush with your hands and stroked it some more , murmuring all the while in that hoarse , cracked voice of yours that it was good , beautiful , a little treasure . |
| 23 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 24 | ‘ I degrade myself with you , as you degrade yourself with Jones , ’ he grated . |
| 25 | There are , though , a number of waves on a reach and as long as you limit yourself to three distinct pumps with a clear pause before the next set you should be alright . |
| 26 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 27 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 28 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 29 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 30 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |