Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 2 | 1859 — 1919 : ‘ They [ Joseph 's contemporaries ] tested every man 's views by his actions , by his carriage of himself on all sorts of occasions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I think you can , you can really erm , you can really be proud of yourself on that . |
| 7 | I 've no complaints against myself on that score . |
| 8 | I 've no complaints against myself on that score . |
| 9 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 10 | I do not know which company in their burgeoning hi-fi industry is responsible but they can be quite pleased with themselves on this evidence . |
| 11 | He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on . |
| 12 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 13 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 14 | Note : To find the boy 's weight , w , he had to be by himself on one side of the see-saw or equation . |
| 15 | unc Note : To find the value of the letter we again had to get it by itself on one side of the equation . |
| 16 | He stuffed his sax case under a table and ordered a pint at the bar , moving ever so casually towards two women sitting by themselves on high stools . |
| 17 | It can be a time when a sensitive friend can make sure the bereaved person is especially thought of , so that they are not alone if they find it hard to be by themselves on those days . |