Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 2 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 3 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 4 | Lee flung himself on to the dog . |
| 5 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 6 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 7 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 8 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 9 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 10 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 11 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 12 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 13 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 14 | Sobbing for breath , she lowered herself on to the ladder . |
| 15 | Léonie lowered herself on to the chair beside the bed , her magazine on her lap . |
| 16 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 17 | Alexandra dug her toes into fissures in the canyon wall and pulled herself on to the platform which was dry and flat and sloped slightly towards the sea . |
| 18 | ‘ Milk , no sugar , ’ Graham said to Sabrina then eased himself on to the couch beside Kolchinsky . |
| 19 | Slowly he eased himself on to the side of the tub , drawing her down with him . |
| 20 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 21 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 22 | Wully Gurk sidled up and squeezed himself on to the end of the seat . |
| 23 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 24 | When the dancing had reached its climax , the whole crowd flung themselves on to the floor and further worked themselves up into what looked like a communal epileptic fit . |
| 25 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |