Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | With great difficulty , he levered himself on to his feet . |
| 2 | The road she found herself on was single-track , and twisting . |
| 3 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 4 | Rostov lowered himself on to his knees and sat back on his heels . |
| 5 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 6 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |
| 7 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 8 | Lee flung himself on to the dog . |
| 9 | Instinctively , Jack flung himself on to Steve , but he simply pushed him away . |
| 10 | He lifted himself on to one elbow , looking down at her ; a finger of light from the street-lamp outside crept between the curtains , touching her face . |
| 11 | He lifted himself on to one elbow and looked down at her . |
| 12 | She lifted herself on to hands and knees , edged to the centre of the girder , waited until her limbs had stopped shaking , and started to crawl . |
| 13 | Suppressing a grunt of pain , Defries lifted herself on to one elbow and looked round . |
| 14 | The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it , was still warm . |
| 15 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 16 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 17 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 18 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 19 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |
| 20 | Corbett threw himself on to a bench beside the wall . |
| 21 | The internal light came on and the radio turned itself on and blasted out heavy rock music at full volume . |
| 22 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 23 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 24 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 25 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 26 | I stood up , yawned and stretched , and threw myself on to a nearby sofa . |
| 27 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 28 | Well , The Beatles based themselves on just about everybody that was currently successful , from the Everly Brothers to Carl Perkins . |
| 29 | He swung himself on to his horse , and with an airy wave clattered into the darkness . |
| 30 | He raised himself on to one elbow so that he could look down into her eyes . |