Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 2 | Ellen Harker seated herself on one of the crates thoughtfully provided by Mother Bombie , drew a gentle breath and began : |
| 3 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 4 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 5 | It was not until Ernest Bloch launched himself on the scene , with Three Jewish Poems in 1913 that ‘ Jewish music ’ per se arrived ; even then it was only half-oriental , half-western in style and colouration . |
| 6 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 7 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 8 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 9 | In 1653 John Lilburne found himself on trial a second time . |
| 10 | Thomas Becket modelled himself on Anselm — in his exile , his inflexibility , his austerities . |