Example sentences of "[pn reflx] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 2 | Lee flung himself on to the dog . |
| 3 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 4 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 5 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 6 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 7 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 8 | ‘ Milk , no sugar , ’ Graham said to Sabrina then eased himself on to the couch beside Kolchinsky . |
| 9 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 10 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 11 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 12 | At any moment and with no warning he 'll throw himself on to the floor and do like a hundred push-ups . |
| 13 | Finally , after a comm-call to the Emissary brought Lord y'Fiprehaude himself on to the screen , to simper a confirmation , the warden grudgingly gave me clearance . |
| 14 | Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa . |
| 15 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 16 | Slowly he eased himself on to the side of the tub , drawing her down with him . |
| 17 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 18 | He reached the turning in four long strides , used the wall to speed himself on around the corner . |
| 19 | The Thingi is a £7.49 plastic arm that Velcros itself on to the top of your monitor and hangs over the side . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 21 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 22 | The mite then seizes the chance to lever itself on to the ant 's head , where it hangs on , upside down , with its hind legs . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to do it cos it 's full of of jugs and then it tips back on itself on to the on to the flat side . |
| 24 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 25 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |
| 26 | After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love . |
| 27 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 28 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 29 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 30 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |