Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 2 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 3 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 5 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 6 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 7 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 8 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 9 | Vechey had decided to hang himself on the last . |
| 10 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 11 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 12 | You 're not , you do n't trust them , you 're not going to put yourself on the line are you , suppose . |
| 13 | However bad a landlord , there is a crucial rule that needs to be kept in mind if you do n't want to put yourself on the wrong side of the law . |
| 14 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |
| 15 | He needed to support himself on the bannister . |
| 16 | I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’ |
| 17 | She started to tap herself on the forehead . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 19 | With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map . |
| 20 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 21 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 22 | Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship . |
| 23 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 24 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 25 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 26 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |