Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] on the [noun sg] " 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 ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda .
8 Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons .
9 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 .
10 You 're not , you do n't trust them , you 're not going to put yourself on the line are you , suppose .
11 He needed to support himself on the bannister .
12 I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’
13 She started to tap herself on the forehead .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint .
19 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 .
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