Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.

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1 Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum .
2 It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house .
3 Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
4 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 .
5 Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed .
6 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 . )
7 I busied myself on the shore
8 Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor .
9 As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences .
10 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 .
11 Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa .
12 I put myself on the line for him once already and look where it got me : thirty-six hours in jail ; Interrogations every four hours .
13 This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel .
14 I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others .
15 I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company .
16 I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter .
17 She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms .
18 She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date .
19 ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’
20 Then she seated herself on the edge of the bed and , breathing deeply , raised the phone up to her ear .
21 As you flung yourself on the bed , with legs spread wide apart , you cupped your rosebush with your hands and stroked it some more , murmuring all the while in that hoarse , cracked voice of yours that it was good , beautiful , a little treasure .
22 She prided herself on the last .
23 She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning .
24 She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then .
25 She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house .
26 You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ?
27 She congratulated herself on the enterprise and initiative which had allowed her to cheat Rose Cottage , to outwit ‘ Time ’ , if only for the day .
28 she heard herself on the video , I 'm sure she
29 You find yourself on the crest of a steep ridge running gently north east towards the summit .
30 She dumped herself on the Chesterfield beside him and ripped open her own packet , noisily .
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