Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got myself on his bad side as well , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 3 | A Civil Servant is , as you know , here to serve as best he can , in whatever way his masters devise , and we do pride ourselves on our adaptability . |
| 4 | Some passages stood out in his mind with almost photographic clarity , presumably because they had impressed themselves on his mind earlier . |
| 5 | The Synod meets at Westminster , just over the road from the Palace of Westminster , and although a relatively modern institution ( 1970 ) , it has modelled itself on its parliamentary cousins . |
| 6 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |