Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 2 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 3 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 4 | So as I say I think it 'll , I think it 'll , it 'll run okay and behave itself on the assumption you can get some people to fill it in so er |
| 5 | Adus/UK , the Bicester , Oxfordshire-based Hewlett-Packard Apollo workstation user society , has re-christened itself HP/Works to reflect an expanding role and growing user base , the group says : the new-styled outfit will introduce itself on March 31 at its annual meeting . |
| 6 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 7 | I 'll just grab my video camera then I can include myself on all my articles , invoices and letterheads . |
| 8 | You may suit yourself on that one ! |
| 9 | Foul up in a chimney and you 'll batter yourself on the walls . |
| 10 | Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will not rectify themselves on their own . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't trouble yourself on my account , mate . ’ |
| 12 | The tsar could congratulate himself on Russia 's first military triumph since the suppression of the Polish rebellion in 1831 . |
| 13 | He knew he deserved nothing and so he decided to go home and throw himself on his father 's mercy . |
| 14 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 15 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
| 16 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 17 | Whereas the left might base itself on the thoughts of Karl Marx , the libertarians look back to Adam Smith and an extreme ideology of laissez-faire capitalism . |
| 18 | It will settle and drape itself on either side forming a natural , water-shedding thatch . |
| 19 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 20 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 21 | At least the members of the BCRS can pat themselves on the back for having used it at least once in 1989 ! |
| 22 | ‘ Well , make sure you do n't show yourself on the skyline up there . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't pat yourself on the back too soon . |
| 24 | Another wheeze is the ‘ complimentary dinner buffet ’ in hotels , usually between 5–7 pm where , for the price of a drink , you can stuff yourself on hot and cold canapes . |
| 25 | Thames can congratulate itself on this scheme , but the BBC must feel still more satisfaction . |
| 26 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 27 | Sam and I can amuse ourselves on the Sunday , and that will give you the opportunity to take Anna to the Forest . ’ |
| 28 | Such a mind may become so restless and frustrated with repression that sooner or later it will tear itself on some nail of its own making . |
| 29 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 30 | It 's up to me whether I eat or not , too , but I just ca n't see myself on that diet of nothing . ’ |