Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 2 | Ukraine proclaimed itself a nuclear-free republic on Aug. 28 , seeking the removal to Russia of nuclear weapons currently stationed on its territory . |
| 3 | ‘ You could give yourself a nasty cut on those shoulder blades , ’ Arthur said , suddenly remembering the whole girl subject after his respite from it and feeling unusually breezy . |
| 4 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 5 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've just landed yourself the best guide on the island , Miss Chester . |
| 7 | A player who has thrived on goals throughout his career , suddenly no longer finds himself a regular name on the scoresheet . |
| 8 | Nearly 50% of all women allow themselves a once-a-year bet on the horses , according to a recent Gallup survey conducted for the UK 's largest bookmaker , Ladbrokes . |
| 9 | It 's not often you find yourself an enforced eavesdropper on two people screwing each other up with murder in their hearts . |
| 10 | There were some hills around me , so I decided to build myself a little house on one of them . |
| 11 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 12 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 13 | So , he gave himself a red light on the beautiful Miss Marlowe , only to find he could n't make himself obey it . |
| 14 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
| 15 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 16 | With trippy guitars working around strange out-of-time sampled rhythms , and the obligatory Hammond organ in the wings , Mother Earth are carving themselves an individual niche on Acid Jazz 's strengthening roster . |