Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 2 | He had a photograph of himself on his postcards and he signed his letters following the original tailpiece ‘ everbest ’ . |
| 3 | He sometimes wondered about his own death , but beyond thinking of himself on some long-distance collision course with annihilation , he could not imagine it . |
| 4 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 5 | He kept a photograph of himself on horseback in full dress uniform in the back of the shop . |
| 6 | 1859 — 1919 : ‘ They [ Joseph 's contemporaries ] tested every man 's views by his actions , by his carriage of himself on all sorts of occasions . |
| 7 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |
| 8 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 9 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 10 | So Emma sent it over to Pook 's Common and Harriet sent it back with a very nice inscription and a signed photo of herself on her horse . |
| 11 | Flavia became aware of her voice and that it was loud , aware of herself on her feet rapidly walking the floor at first light . |
| 12 | Think of yourself on the 19th ( the day of the full Moon ) . |
| 13 | I think you can , you can really erm , you can really be proud of yourself on that . |
| 14 | Through the rigging of the schooner a five of Palernians could be seen , making a nuisance of themselves on a flimsy raft . |
| 15 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 16 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 17 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |