Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think you can , you can really erm , you can really be proud of yourself on that . |
| 32 | Through the rigging of the schooner a five of Palernians could be seen , making a nuisance of themselves on a flimsy raft . |
| 33 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 34 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 35 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 36 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 37 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 38 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 39 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 40 | I 've no complaints against myself on that score . |
| 41 | I 've no complaints against myself on that score . |
| 42 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 43 | Thereafter the truly experienced Phillips-watcher will know that he is to be found in the corner of the studio conducting a vehement argument with himself on the subject of whatever he just did n't tell you , and will shortly be sending an assistant back to pick up his hat . |
| 44 | Jezrael-Ayesha laughed when they did , their feelings carrying her above herself on clouds of alcoholic freedom . |
| 45 | ‘ I had no right to take out my anger with myself on you . ’ |
| 46 | I do not know which company in their burgeoning hi-fi industry is responsible but they can be quite pleased with themselves on this evidence . |
| 47 | But now , with the end of a gruelling theatre tour in sight , she 's making a name for herself on stage . |
| 48 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
| 49 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 50 | Early worries that picture availability would make a story newsworthy in itself on TV did not persist . |
| 51 | But let's face it gents , speed in itself on a completely open road with nobody around is not in itself dangerous , that 's down to the individual . |
| 52 | We children had a table to one side to ourselves on which were laid out bottles of pop , cakes , buns and bread and jam . |
| 53 | When Nails had the refrigerator factory to himself on a warm summer evening he felt amazingly content . |
| 54 | He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on . |
| 55 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 56 | On 1 March 1989 , a group of British skiers were horrified to see a man set fire to himself on the ski-slopes outside Braşov . |
| 57 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 58 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 59 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 60 | As he was about to sit down himself on the cross-seat , Joshua caught his arm . |