Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 2 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 3 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 4 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 5 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 6 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |