Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 3 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 4 | Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly . |
| 5 | The moment you stand in front of an orchestra you hurt yourself on the inertia of the matter . |
| 6 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 7 | The second came recently at Newlands , the imposing Cape Town stadium — at least , it was imposing till they tore out large bits to install even more corporate hospitality guzzlers — where by their second-half performance they imposed themselves on South Africa and crossed the final frontier of world rugby at a surging gallop . |
| 8 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 9 | As a nation we pride ourselves on our strong sense of sportsmanship and fair play . |
| 10 | This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel . |
| 11 | For a time he disported himself on stage like some hell-fire preacher , but since then the message of his songs has been more mixed again : even returning , sometimes , to his great old theme of disaffected love . |