Example sentences of "[pn reflx] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have come all this way to take part in a major game , not put ourselves up for auction . ’ |
| 2 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 3 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 4 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 5 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 6 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 7 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 8 | Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’ |
| 9 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 10 | We hooked ourselves up , circled the field , and on a signal from the R.A.F. officer , Lt. Lewes and Davies dived out . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 12 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 13 | Some time after dark , when the cans which had held chicken and plum pudding lay cold in a shallow pit , and when our plates and dishes had been scraped clean , we wrapped ourselves up and sat out of the wind , behind the Land Rover . |
| 14 | If we go the right way about it , we could set ourselves up nice with a good little earner still in Rafferty 's . ’ |
| 15 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 16 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 17 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 18 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 19 | We have all done tasks where we reward ourselves if we achieve them and ‘ beat ourselves up ’ if we do n't . |
| 20 | However , we do n't have to beat ourselves up about it when we are criticized . |
| 21 | And we had to hoist ourselves up out of the water and then go and dance — it was dreadful . |
| 22 | Undaunted , we crushed our bodies against the stone and eased ourselves up and over . |
| 23 | Because personal power is the promotion of self , we send positive data on ourselves up the hierarchy and forget to send the negative data — that is , we tell our superiors how good we are . |
| 24 | We 've decided to conserve sufficient powder in the banqueting hall to blow ourselves up if the worst comes to the worst . |
| 25 | Good grief , no sooner has the final whistle blown than we here at Athletico Whaddon are gearing ourselves up ready for the hurly-burly of next season 's campaign . |
| 26 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 27 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 28 | That is , we pulled ourselves up by our own boot straps ! ’ |
| 29 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 30 | But since the so-called Society of Young Publishers has failed to take up my challenge to revive the panto , we 'll have to think of some other way to cheer ourselves up . |