Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope John will work exceptionally hard and get himself on the bench for the QPR game . |
| 3 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 4 | We crossed to the island of Krk at 16:30 and found ourselves on what was virtually a single track ‘ road ’ heading for the town of Krk . |
| 5 | He was chosen as tight-head for the ‘ Boks against the FNB side in 1989 but injured himself on that same day and never got the elusive cap . |