Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 2 | Nigel made many enemies and no friends with these pieces , but he prided himself on his integrity . |
| 3 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 4 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 5 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 6 | He prided himself on his fluency in the tongue , but the stranger only looked bemused . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 9 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 12 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 16 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 19 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 20 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 21 | Hastily he dried himself on the thin towel and clambered into clothes that stuck to every inch of his damp body . |
| 22 | For a time he disported himself on stage like some hell-fire preacher , but since then the message of his songs has been more mixed again : even returning , sometimes , to his great old theme of disaffected love . |
| 23 | He perched himself on the edge of the gunwale and took the two ends of the rope in his hands . |
| 24 | He sort of stood there , and then , after we 'd recognised him , he threw himself on us both , hugging and kissing us . |
| 25 | She floundered like a seal in the greasy mess , and when he threw himself on top of her , the battle began . |
| 26 | He touched himself on the chest . |
| 27 | He congratulated himself on his success in ‘ carrying Gandhi on the sentimental side ’ and in persuading him ‘ to come into line ’ . |
| 28 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
| 29 | He raised himself on one elbow and gingerly felt around his feet . |
| 30 | He settled himself on the sofa as he always did , looking fit and rested as he eyed her speculatively . |