Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basing himself on authority from the United States , La Forest J. concluded that any other rule would at best be inefficient , and at worst could lead to financial chaos : see pp. 194–197 . |
| 2 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 3 | " Jenny likes expressing herself on paper but she has n't so far , mentioned the date of her return . " |
| 4 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 5 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 6 | I recoil at the strength of his putrid breath and yank myself away , but he grabs my waist and throws me upon the bed , pinning my hands down and forcing himself on top of me . |
| 7 | After stuffing himself on mince pies and quaffing all that milk , and getting even tubbier , it 's surprising that Santa can carry all the things the 600,000 ask him for . |
| 8 | ‘ The Queen 's thousands of miles away and she 's not stirring herself on account of Jamaica , of that you can be sure . ’ |
| 9 | At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall . |
| 10 | Trent pushed Golden Girl off the beach , swinging the bows round before dragging himself on board . |
| 11 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |
| 12 | Theatrical images of this kind are apparent throughout Eliot 's work and , as Browne has remarked , " The image of the actor finding himself on stage in the wrong part comes to Eliot as the expression of a climax of disturbance " . |
| 13 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 14 | More than 100 people a week are taken to hospital after hurting themselves on supermarket trolleys . |
| 15 | Putting yourself on view ? |
| 16 | As for ‘ aware ’ , its associations are with the cognate ‘ ware ’ , ‘ beware ’ , ‘ wary ’ , ‘ warn ’ ; the analogy is with putting oneself on guard against a peril , a vigilance imposed by pressing need or by duty . |
| 17 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 18 | It 's really weird seeing yourself on telly . |
| 19 | ‘ I was sick of seeing myself on television , so I thought the poor public , how are they going to cope . |
| 20 | Furthermore , teachers must get used to seeing themselves on film . |
| 21 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 22 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 23 | RIGHT Said Fred star Richard Fairbrass hates watching himself on telly . |
| 24 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |
| 25 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 26 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |