Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia could quite see Beuno maddeningly getting himself martyred on some trivial point of principle , or overturning a regime with his angelic intransigence . |
| 2 | Following Emily in , he found himself surrounded on all sides by sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins ; jam jars containing stubby brushes ; bottles half full of amber fluid , and oil cans . |
| 3 | Folcini himself resigned on March 7 . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke is not , after all , the first , nor will he be the last politician to find himself caught on the hop by a shrewd interviewer . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 6 | Rogers ( 1951b ) himself reflected on his own advancing years and , applying the actualizing tendency to the problems of ageing in a chapter which asked the question ‘ Growing old : or older and growing ? , he concluded that ‘ I sense myself as older and growing ’ . |
| 7 | A Scottish Labour Member could find himself isolated on the Committee and virtually speaking to the walls of the Committee Room , because he will get no reasonable or logical answers from Ministers who have no responsibility for Scottish education and will be unable to deal with the criticisms and questions which that Labour Member may raise . |
| 8 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 9 | Caesar was the first Roman to have himself portrayed on coins during his lifetime . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 11 | He also frisked drunks and got himself arrested on a vagrancy charge . |
| 12 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 13 | Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton both attended Robert Lowell 's writing class , and Lowell himself camped on Allen Tate 's lawn so he could be with him and learn what one experienced poet could teach a younger one . |
| 14 | Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty . |
| 15 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 16 | In the expansive lounge , with its wide-angle view across the City , Normski absently manipulates the television image of himself stored on a tape of Dance Energy , watching as he clicks forward , frame by frame , until his face fills the screen . |
| 17 | ( However , Marchais himself declared on French television on April 10 , 1990 , that he and his party had been " duped " over the years by communist leaders in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . ) |
| 18 | In March Mr Gorbachev himself remarked on this supposed fragility . |
| 19 | Then the teacher let out a tiny fluttering gasp — like a goldfish finding itself spilled on a carpet — and sank down , defeated , on a crate with a hand over her eyes . |
| 20 | According to reports by the Soviet news agency Tass , fighting in Kabul itself abated on March 7 . |
| 21 | Each division is itself organized on U-form lines . |
| 22 | The heart of the problem appears to be that this institutional framework is itself founded on a conventional gesellschaft- type representative model . |
| 23 | This was not a common experience , however ; indeed , shortly afterwards Courtaulds itself embarked on the takeover trail . |
| 24 | The opera , by Malcolm Williamson , was itself based on a novel of the same name by Patrick Leigh Fermor , who wove a complicated plot of romance and intrigue against the colourful background of a sultry Caribbean town in the midst of a hectic carnival , while above the town a volcano rumbled threateningly . |
| 25 | Even were the principle to be open to compromise , the inference that it is proper merely , so to say , to extend opening hours until 70 is itself based on a misconception about older age — and one is unhappy to note its manifestation among a clutch of answers from old-age-oriented agencies . |
| 26 | This change of name was itself based on changes in the theories which informed the Group 's work . |
| 27 | Tolkien was trying , then , to make Shakespeare more positive — a bold venture , but based on a clear insight itself based on very minute reading . |
| 28 | Seniority is itself based on the length of service to the group as in the classic statement of Japanese company practices ; authority is legitimated by its long record of commitment and respect for seniority is therefore justified . |
| 29 | This was difficult to explain given the postulate , itself based on years of observation , that dreams fulfil wishes . |
| 30 | The draft proposed the incorporation into Hong Kong law of the human rights and freedoms provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , itself based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 [ see p. 9279 ] . |