Example sentences of "[verb] himself [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke is not , after all , the first , nor will he be the last politician to find himself caught on the hop by a shrewd interviewer . |
| 2 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 3 | ‘ You be careful , my dad 's a vicar ! ’ and the car had stopped and the man had sworn at him viciously , using some phrases Luke later regretted not remembering , and Luke found himself shaking on the dark verge a mile out of Snead . |
| 4 | He took a step back , dizzy and breathless , then found himself sitting on the floor , back to the wall . |
| 5 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 6 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 7 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 8 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 9 | As Withel tensed himself to turn on the tourist Rincewind lashed out and caught the thief on the jaw . |
| 10 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |
| 11 | He swung himself to sit on the edge of the bed , and dropped his head in his hands . |
| 12 | When there is a Labour Government and the Leader of the House finds himself sitting on the Opposition Benches , that Administration will be gracious to the then Opposition . |
| 13 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 14 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |
| 15 | He enjoyed her body , though he would n't allow himself to dwell on the pleasure it gave him , and being away from her , even for one day , was a kind of purgatory . |
| 16 | Lapping a straggler , he forced himself to focus on the shimmering surface . |
| 17 | Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty . |
| 18 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when he passed those gigantic hoardings advertising Hollywood films with vast drawings of pouting female lips , it was all he could do to stop himself wanking on the spot . |
| 20 | A Scottish Labour Member could find himself isolated on the Committee and virtually speaking to the walls of the Committee Room , because he will get no reasonable or logical answers from Ministers who have no responsibility for Scottish education and will be unable to deal with the criticisms and questions which that Labour Member may raise . |
| 21 | If he comes through it well , Weir has a very good chance of going to New Zealand as a versatile forward who , in that company , could find himself pulling on the No6 jersey . |