Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] himself on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 2 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 3 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 4 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 5 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 6 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 7 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 8 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 11 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |
| 12 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 13 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 14 | By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power . |
| 15 | When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches . |
| 16 | Eric settles himself on the oche . |
| 17 | FURLANETTO PRIDES HIMSELF ON THE range of work which he chooses to undertake , particularly recently when he recorded the ‘ other ’ Don Giovanni by Gazzaniga ( see ‘ Opera Reviews ’ in this issue ) . |
| 18 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 19 | Wycliffe perched himself on the edge of the table . |
| 20 | As she opened her drawing-pad , Julius settled himself on the grass , his back propped up against one of the stones . |
| 21 | It was not until Ernest Bloch launched himself on the scene , with Three Jewish Poems in 1913 that ‘ Jewish music ’ per se arrived ; even then it was only half-oriental , half-western in style and colouration . |
| 22 | Guido seated himself on the arm of a nearby armchair and looked at her with amusement in his eyes . |
| 23 | Lugard prided himself on the consideration with which he treated the emirs on his own visits to their courts . |
| 24 | Charsky raised himself on an elbow and picked up the mug of coffee , while Anna slipped off her dressing gown and climbed into bed . |
| 25 | ‘ Gloucester positioned himself on the Guildhall steps — in the forefront of the assembly . ’ |