Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 2 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 3 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 4 | Moving round the table , I jabbed myself painfully on its corner , and burst into tears . |
| 5 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 6 | I propped myself up on my elbow and looked at him . |
| 7 | I howl , and I throw myself down on the floor . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I held myself back on this one ! ’ |
| 9 | After they had told her Wexford and Burden sat helplessly while she flung herself face-downwards on the sofa and sobbed into the cushions . |
| 10 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 11 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 12 | She flung herself down on her bunk , burying her face in the pillow . |
| 13 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 14 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 15 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 16 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 17 | In answer she lifted herself up on tiptoe and leaned against his tall , firm frame . |
| 18 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 19 | She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept . |
| 20 | She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly . |
| 21 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 22 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 23 | Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs . |
| 24 | She perched herself uncomfortably on the only chair in the room as he sat down on the bed . |
| 25 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 26 | She pulled herself up on her walking-frame and shuffled off , pushing it in front of her , towards the kitchen . |
| 27 | She pulled herself up on the bed and , kneeling in such a way that George could see her breasts to their best advantage , took his phallus into her mouth . |
| 28 | She propped herself up on one elbow . |
| 29 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 30 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |