Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 2 | Oh Jane , my hope … my love … my life ! ’ and he threw himself despairingly on the sofa . |
| 3 | Antony perched himself comfortably on the edge of the table . |
| 4 | Alec perched himself opposite on the edge of an armchair . |
| 5 | She perched herself uncomfortably on the only chair in the room as he sat down on the bed . |
| 6 | Loretta perched herself uncomfortably on the very edge of the jacket . |
| 7 | Other examples include Marks and Spencer , and British Home Stores , two chains which based themselves originally on the clothing trade , but which between them have diversified into footwear , foodstuffs , toys and books , amongst other items . |
| 8 | Miss Fergusson expressed herself forcibly on the subject of popular superstition and the responsibility of the clergy . |
| 9 | Miss Logan was angry and distressed at such Judas-like behaviour , and expressed herself forcibly on the subject to the Armenian priest , who nodded and offered to say prayers for Miss Fergusson . |
| 10 | After they had told her Wexford and Burden sat helplessly while she flung herself face-downwards on the sofa and sobbed into the cushions . |
| 11 | Paul Littlejohn settled himself carefully on the sofa . |
| 12 | The Last Tycoon filly , out of a half-sister to Royal Gait , acquitted herself well on the Midlands track on her only start last month , gamely chasing home easy winner Ballerina after being switched , finishing two lengths second . |
| 13 | Dr Frome slapped himself violently on the thigh . |
| 14 | Christmas has come early for me with this one — another mysterious release that planted itself firmly on the Vibes desk . |
| 15 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 16 | Nomes flung themselves flat on the trembling deck of the cab . |
| 17 | The small number of influential British biologists , men such as Richard Owen and T. H. Huxley , often modelled themselves self-consciously on the Germans . |
| 18 | Cranston steadied himself carefully on the icy cobbles and stared at the sky . |