Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 2 | They cushion themselves on the silence . |
| 3 | Most extraordinary thing : as wife shoves high-chair into car 's rear suspension and I quietly herniate myself on a couple of bags filled with Devon mud and light aggregate thieved from local quarry by children , strange sense of loss creeps over me . |
| 4 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
| 5 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 6 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 7 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 8 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 9 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself on a mountain path . |
| 10 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 11 | The band run themselves on a democratic basis and have their own voting system . |
| 12 | So enjoy yourself on the day . |
| 13 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 14 | I thought if I could get one or two put up , it 'd be a miniature Stonehenge ; call it Southmoorhenge and get ourselves on the map . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope John will work exceptionally hard and get himself on the bench for the QPR game . |
| 16 | Show you areas where you might benefit from further training , that 'll be , brum , brum , get yourself on a training course , yes ? and also we 're producing a which comes out in early February on training , which will list to all your managers everything that we do in training . |
| 17 | If the company has cashed your cheque and not dispatched the goods , but has gone into liquidation , then your best bet is to call the official liquidators and get yourself on the list of creditors . |
| 18 | If the company has cashed your cheque and not despatched the goods , but has gone into liquidation , then your best bet is to call the official liquidators and get yourself on the list of creditors . |
| 19 | Get yourself on the course that Paul went on and you 're gon na be getting the kit soon anyway , as part of the network , it wo n't give you stand alone , but you have to have somebody on the network |
| 20 | Get yourself on the course , ring er Sue or somebody , at the training school , tell her your problem |
| 21 | Is it Jeff right , get yourself on the course , it should n't be difficult to get on the course , Paul got on it , without even knowing he was on it . |
| 22 | We falsely congratulate ourselves on the progressiveness of contemporary welfare provision , ignoring not only its insufficiency but also the fact that much of the need itself is an artificial creation of contemporary social prejudices against people continuing at work . |
| 23 | ‘ Let God be God ’ and we find ourselves on the path of discipleship . |
| 24 | They were speaking in favour of it , now here he comes along er and er we we 're I I find myself , regrettable I think because er er his er a minister very well informed in these areas with er who made in those committees a very powerful and effective contribution , now we find ourselves on the er opposite side but I have to say now that we are on opposite side that what is introducing today er is really er too little er and far too er too too late . |
| 25 | How natural to bask in the luxury of Concorde , congratulate herself on a triumphant trip , sip a glass of champagne and forget what she had seen . |
| 26 | If the C of E models itself on Parliament , the Methodists model themselves on a school prize-giving . |
| 27 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 30 | 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 . |