Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE OLD Stager had no official standing at the celebration of tea , but custom had confirmed that he be allowed to sit demurely , his chair a little apart from the table , while the protagonists disported themselves on sausage-rolls and scones . |
| 2 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 3 | Barbs prided herself on her deep and politically informed compassion . |
| 4 | It is n't that difficult then to imagine how Johanna 's parents found themselves on Christmas Eve in the position they did — unsure whether their daughter was with her friends or in terrible danger . |
| 5 | When she disingenuously called her mother and asked if she might stay in England to take a degree , her parents congratulated themselves on having saved their daughter . |
| 6 | While Rome aspired ever more ambitiously to a new imperial ideal , the Egyptian monasteries prided themselves on a much purer , much more faithful and accurate record of Jesus himself , his kin and his teachings . |
| 7 | As Alison disappeared with Irina , Ludens seated himself on the table . |
| 8 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 9 | He was directed to a leather armchair by the empty fireplace while the two women seated themselves on dining chairs at the table . |
| 10 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 11 | A volley of razor mosquito-bolts impaled themselves on the ground floor . |
| 12 | Jacqui found herself on her knees with Kattina behind her . |