Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 2 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 3 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 4 | You would , I know , be the first to agree that , if the critics base themselves on fact and eschew the attractions of hindsight , such criticism is valuable . |
| 5 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 6 | They cushion themselves on the silence . |
| 7 | Most extraordinary thing : as wife shoves high-chair into car 's rear suspension and I quietly herniate myself on a couple of bags filled with Devon mud and light aggregate thieved from local quarry by children , strange sense of loss creeps over me . |
| 8 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 9 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
| 10 | Test yourself on these three sets of exercises every two months — after you have completed the questionnaire and warmed up with The Daily Dozen . |
| 11 | Then test yourself on how much you 've learned about the way your particular machine works . |
| 12 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 13 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 14 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 15 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 16 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 17 | I prop myself on my elbows . |
| 18 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself on a mountain path . |
| 19 | Imagine yourself on holiday ; think about where you would be , what you would be doing , the kind of food and drink you 'd be eating and enjoying . |
| 20 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 21 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 22 | The band run themselves on a democratic basis and have their own voting system . |
| 23 | So enjoy yourself on the day . |
| 24 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 25 | ‘ Some try and hang themselves on lamp-posts outside men 's houses , but I do n't know any of that sort . |
| 26 | The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions . |
| 27 | I thought if I could get one or two put up , it 'd be a miniature Stonehenge ; call it Southmoorhenge and get ourselves on the map . |
| 28 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope John will work exceptionally hard and get himself on the bench for the QPR game . |
| 30 | If the company has cashed your cheque and not dispatched the goods , but has gone into liquidation , then your best bet is to call the official liquidators and get yourself on the list of creditors . |