Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] on the " 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 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 3 | So enjoy yourself on the day . |
| 4 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 5 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 6 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 9 | She makes a rude gesture , involving several hypothetical orifices , then strides over to plant herself on the arm of Rainbow 's chair . |
| 10 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 11 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 12 | Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised . |
| 13 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 14 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 15 | He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation . |
| 16 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 17 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 18 | And so he always laid himself on the line . |
| 19 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 20 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 23 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 24 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 25 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 26 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 27 | If you were n't , you 'd probably sack yourself on the spot . |
| 28 | The son of Rainbow Quest was always up with the leaders that day , clearly enjoying himself on the easy ground and eventually racing three and a half lengths clear . |
| 29 | Although tied in , it also supports itself on the pyracantha which , in its turn , requires strong anchorage |
| 30 | It is accepted that the deputy judge correctly directed himself on the issue of testamentary capacity when , after citing passages from the judgment of Cockburn C.J. in Banks v. Goodfellow ( 1870 ) L.R. 5 Q.B . |