Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you flung yourself on the bed , with legs spread wide apart , you cupped your rosebush with your hands and stroked it some more , murmuring all the while in that hoarse , cracked voice of yours that it was good , beautiful , a little treasure . |
| 2 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 3 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 4 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 5 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 6 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 7 | As we pride ourselves on our service we would certainly like to hear from you if there is any reason for not renewing your entry . |
| 8 | As they settled themselves on the trunk Silas switched off the torch . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 13 | But Garvey did not care what Gabriel believed , so long as he conducted himself on stage like the Angel Gabriel . |