Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] on [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basing himself on authority from the United States , La Forest J. concluded that any other rule would at best be inefficient , and at worst could lead to financial chaos : see pp. 194–197 . |
| 2 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 3 | I recoil at the strength of his putrid breath and yank myself away , but he grabs my waist and throws me upon the bed , pinning my hands down and forcing himself on top of me . |
| 4 | ‘ The Queen 's thousands of miles away and she 's not stirring herself on account of Jamaica , of that you can be sure . ’ |
| 5 | Theatrical images of this kind are apparent throughout Eliot 's work and , as Browne has remarked , " The image of the actor finding himself on stage in the wrong part comes to Eliot as the expression of a climax of disturbance " . |
| 6 | As for ‘ aware ’ , its associations are with the cognate ‘ ware ’ , ‘ beware ’ , ‘ wary ’ , ‘ warn ’ ; the analogy is with putting oneself on guard against a peril , a vigilance imposed by pressing need or by duty . |
| 7 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |