Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 March 1989 , a group of British skiers were horrified to see a man set fire to himself on the ski-slopes outside Braşov . |
| 2 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 3 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 4 | She had justified her behaviour to herself on the basis that the police would have been much slower and more painstaking . |
| 5 | During and following the Gorbachev era there were numerous complaints about the tendency of presidents to arrogate more power to themselves on the grounds that it was a temporary measure to deal with the extremely serious economic and social situation facing the republics . |