Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.

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1 And came again to seat herself on the High Throne .
2 Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’
3 After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place .
4 The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain .
5 Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer .
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