Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 2 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 3 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 4 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 5 | As soon as the meal was over Didi excused herself on the grounds of a headache , leaving behind her an uneasy silence . |
| 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 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 10 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |
| 11 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 12 | By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power . |
| 13 | Sara dumped herself on the sofa . |
| 14 | Rushing up to her room , Constance flung herself on the bed and tried to cry . |
| 15 | When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches . |
| 16 | Alina perched herself on the far end of the three-seater . |
| 17 | Wycliffe perched himself on the edge of the table . |
| 18 | With a wail Jenny threw herself on the bed and buried her face in her pillow . |
| 19 | As she opened her drawing-pad , Julius settled himself on the grass , his back propped up against one of the stones . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Laura seated herself on the bed and Rex gave her a good sniff . |
| 22 | Guido seated himself on the arm of a nearby armchair and looked at her with amusement in his eyes . |
| 23 | Lugard prided himself on the consideration with which he treated the emirs on his own visits to their courts . |
| 24 | ‘ Gloucester positioned himself on the Guildhall steps — in the forefront of the assembly . ’ |