Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 2 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 3 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 4 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 5 | Some brightly coloured butterflies , orange and yellow and black and white — his father would have known their names — sunned themselves on the mellow rosy brickwork , spreading their wings flat in the heat . |
| 6 | The old lady sat herself on the red plush sofa and behind her the woodwork of the grand piano gleamed in the dim light . |