Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 2 | The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico . |
| 3 | I always prided myself on not being afraid . |
| 4 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 5 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 6 | I nearly killed myself on my bike ! |
| 7 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 8 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 9 | I almost threw myself on him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind . |
| 12 | This is the untold story of an exchange which rightly prides itself on an ability to offer efficient markets in leading shares but which can not cope with the unattractive smaller companies . |
| 13 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 14 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 15 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 16 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We never based ourselves on them but we just developed that way . |
| 19 | And so he always laid himself on the line . |
| 20 | Although tied in , it also supports itself on the pyracantha which , in its turn , requires strong anchorage |
| 21 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |