Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 2 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 3 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 4 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 6 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 7 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 8 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 9 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 10 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 11 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 12 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 13 | You 're not , you do n't trust them , you 're not going to put yourself on the line are you , suppose . |
| 14 | So you 've got to present yourself on a business level . |
| 15 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |
| 16 | He needed to support himself on the bannister . |
| 17 | I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’ |
| 18 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 19 | She started to tap herself on the forehead . |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 21 | With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map . |
| 22 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 23 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 24 | Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship . |
| 25 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 26 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 27 | And now you 're trying to choke yourself on a drink of juice . |
| 28 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 29 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |