Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 3 | Face to face , the son who had wanted to model himself on his father now outraged him , showing him little respect , openly arguing with him , Under Vincent 's voice , in his fixed , obstinate stare , he detected a lurking mockery and contempt for everything he stood for . |
| 4 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 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 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |