Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prop myself on my elbows . |
| 2 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 3 | As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences . |
| 4 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 5 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 6 | I model myself on Princess Di . |
| 7 | I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others . |
| 8 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |
| 9 | I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company . |
| 10 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 11 | I pride myself on having a slightly more sophisticated sense of humour than that . ’ |
| 12 | I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter . |