Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 2 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 3 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 4 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 5 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 6 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 7 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 8 | Seating ourselves on the trunk of an old ash-tree that stretched along the ground , Coleridge read aloud with a sonorous and musical voice , the ballad of Betty Foy . |
| 9 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 10 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 11 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 12 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 13 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 14 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 15 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 16 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 17 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 18 | When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches . |
| 19 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 20 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 21 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 22 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 23 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 24 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 25 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 26 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 27 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 28 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 29 | By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power . |
| 30 | 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 . |