Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 2 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 3 | It was not until Ernest Bloch launched himself on the scene , with Three Jewish Poems in 1913 that ‘ Jewish music ’ per se arrived ; even then it was only half-oriental , half-western in style and colouration . |
| 4 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 5 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 6 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 7 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 8 | The peacekeepers in New York pride themselves on a brand-new 24-hour operations room . |
| 9 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |