Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 2 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 3 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 4 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 5 | A good dancing tune now , or else you might be dancing yourself on the end of a rope . ’ |
| 6 | Hooto ( TM ) may , even now , be congratulating himself on the risks he 's taken , the frontiers he 's conquered . |
| 7 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 8 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 9 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 10 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 11 | ‘ Muslims are organising themselves on a nationwide scale , ’ Dr Mohammed Ghayas , editor of Muslimedia , a news service of the Islamic movement , said . |
| 12 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 13 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 14 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 15 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 16 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 17 | Because what Niki was doing-the subject was Niki 's contract and terms for 1977 — was putting himself on the same level as Enzo . |