Example sentences of "[pn reflx] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 2 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |
| 3 | Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront . |
| 4 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 5 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 6 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 7 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 8 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 9 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 10 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 11 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 12 | The son of Rainbow Quest was always up with the leaders that day , clearly enjoying himself on the easy ground and eventually racing three and a half lengths clear . |
| 13 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |
| 14 | Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth . |
| 15 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 16 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 17 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 18 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 19 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 20 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 21 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 22 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 23 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Because what Niki was doing-the subject was Niki 's contract and terms for 1977 — was putting himself on the same level as Enzo . |
| 26 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 27 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 28 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hastily he dried himself on the thin towel and clambered into clothes that stuck to every inch of his damp body . |