Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 2 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 3 | I played a real opera singer from the nineteenth century , Nadena Burokhof and I based myself on her . |
| 4 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 5 | She was not thinking clearly and she prided herself on thinking clearly : priorities , motives , objectives . |
| 6 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
| 7 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 8 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 9 | ‘ Let God be God ’ and we find ourselves on the path of discipleship . |
| 10 | Erm and we pride ourselves on the skill and the quality that we build into the engine and you ca n't do that with robots . |
| 11 | ‘ They are a big , heavy side and they pride themselves on having rugged forwards , ’ said Moore . |
| 12 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 13 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 14 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 15 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 16 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 17 | Nigel made many enemies and no friends with these pieces , but he prided himself on his integrity . |