Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb past] on " in BNC.

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1 I can only emphasise the point that Her Royal Highness has already made on the requirements for us to have a much larger membership to allow us to speak with strong voice in the many debates we find ourselves involved on behalf of our sport whether it be windsurfers , dinghies , offshore sailing craft , motor cruisers , powerboat racing , anything that virtually goes on the water we look after .
2 To complete the detail , a circuit was flown in formation with the Jodel , whilst Tony himself formated on the two of us .
3 When at this point the outraged proprietor himself arrived on the scene , seized a pickaxe from a workman and defied the party to proceed , using very much improper language , the sheriff had second thoughts and counselled withdrawal .
4 The suffering Christ himself writhed on a green wooden cross on one of the huge side pillars .
5 At his trial in 1945 , he himself insisted on wearing the very simplest uniform of a Marshal of France , his only decoration the Médaille Militaire .
6 Of course , the man himself died on 2 November 1950 .
7 Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem .
8 Rubin himself appeared on stage for a pep talk , a short and stocky 40ish fellow in business blues .
9 Here was another aspect of the Kipling story which must have appealed to the student of F. H. Bradley , the Eliot who himself wrote on ‘ Degrees of Reality ’ .
10 Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle .
11 Susanna Jennens herself lived on a comfortable but not vast income of £300 [ Sitwell , 21 ] .
12 Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table .
13 She herself sat on the couch and settled her skirts primly around her legs in what struck Melissa , in a flash of impish humour , as a symbolic gesture of respectability and self-protection .
14 they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment
15 Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden .
16 The newspapers themselves leaped on the parallel with Raskolnikov and his crime and with the innocent Nikolai 's declaration of guilt .
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