Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got myself on his bad side as well , eh ? ’ |
| 3 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 4 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 5 | Oh , just you try forcing yourself on me again and your world will explode . |
| 6 | If you do find yourself on top of a difficult peak late on a hot day , a final option to wait until sundown before tackling the descent . |
| 7 | and after you 've gorged yourself on all the fun and nightlife that Benitses has to offer , you can turn in for the night and leave it all behind . |
| 8 | Have you come to revenge yourself on me for failing you ? ’ |
| 9 | If you have taped yourself on the piano at home , make sure it will amplify well ; public address systems magnify all the little noises and blemishes . |
| 10 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 11 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |
| 12 | A Civil Servant is , as you know , here to serve as best he can , in whatever way his masters devise , and we do pride ourselves on our adaptability . |
| 13 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 14 | Luckily they 've sat themselves on opposite sides of the room . |
| 15 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 16 | She smelt of the exhalations of other people 's cigarettes and spilt wine , and she was expansive , with the air of someone who has spent time in the company of her like-minded fellows , not distracted and irritable as people are when they have tired themselves on the trail of trivial knowledge . |
| 17 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 18 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |