Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prop myself on my elbows . |
| 2 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 3 | As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences . |
| 4 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 5 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 6 | I model myself on Princess Di . |
| 7 | I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others . |
| 8 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |
| 9 | I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company . |
| 10 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 11 | I pride myself on having a slightly more sophisticated sense of humour than that . ’ |
| 12 | I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter . |
| 13 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 14 | The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions . |
| 15 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 16 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 17 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 18 | You find yourself on the crest of a steep ridge running gently north east towards the summit . |
| 19 | Young people who find themselves on probation for shop-lifting , vandalism or petty thuggery should be shown where the path of crime may lead . |
| 20 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 21 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 22 | earlier , we 've had a lot of calls on this on er , the best way to deal with house guests who inflict themselves on you over Christmas , have you ever had any horror stories yourself ? |
| 23 | But I take the humanitarian line that this permits Mr Tim to engage in full imaginative sympathy with those tongues of Babel who throw themselves on his mercy . |
| 24 | The moment you stand in front of an orchestra you hurt yourself on the inertia of the matter . |
| 25 | You hurt yourself on a big stick ? |
| 26 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 27 | For a people who pride themselves on their love of animals , and considering the age-old human dependence on animals for food and work and as pets , it seems strange that a college to train veterinary surgeons in this country was only established two hundred years ago in response to a plan proposed by a Frenchman . |
| 28 | Recently refurbished , it offers the most upto-date facilities combined with staff who pride themselves on offering traditional good service and friendly welcomes . |
| 29 | People who pride themselves on being rational wo n't walk under ladders . |
| 30 | Among the wildest of the ecstatics who float themselves on the spontaneous , comparable only with the poet , lover or mystic , is the man of reason possessed by a new insight . |