Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 2 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 3 | Luckily the bus itself was delayed , and so they got themselves on board . |
| 4 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
| 5 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 6 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 7 | I played a real opera singer from the nineteenth century , Nadena Burokhof and I based myself on her . |
| 8 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 9 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 10 | She was not thinking clearly and she prided herself on thinking clearly : priorities , motives , objectives . |
| 11 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
| 12 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |
| 13 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 14 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 15 | ‘ Let God be God ’ and we find ourselves on the path of discipleship . |
| 16 | Erm and we pride ourselves on the skill and the quality that we build into the engine and you ca n't do that with robots . |
| 17 | ‘ They are a big , heavy side and they pride themselves on having rugged forwards , ’ said Moore . |
| 18 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 19 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 20 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 21 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 22 | BELOW RIGHT It can be considerably easier to clean up thoroughly after your pet if it relieves itself on a sandy surface , rather than on grass . |
| 23 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 24 | Nigel made many enemies and no friends with these pieces , but he prided himself on his integrity . |
| 25 | She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness . |
| 26 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 27 | For Helfet , the design 's acceptance is a particular triumph , since he prides himself on understanding the Jaguar ethos . |
| 28 | It is perhaps strange that , whilst we pride ourselves on our commitment to individual freedom and self-expression , listening to the problems of other people , and responding appropriately to their needs as expressed , is less common . |
| 29 | One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law . |
| 30 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |