Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ? |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 3 | And He shall say : ‘ I receive them , O ye wise ones , I receive them , O ye men of learning , inasmuch as not one of these has deemed himself worthy . ’ |
| 4 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 5 | With his much-loved Francesca came her four younger brothers for whom , as the eldest child of a widow , she had always considered herself responsible . |
| 6 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 7 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 8 | A business that you may never have considered yourself involved in ; publishing . |
| 9 | Moreover , there were many bishops who would have considered themselves first and foremost monks : St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( d. 687 ) had a respectable ancestry reaching back to St Martin of Tours ( d. c .397 ) . |
| 10 | SUDBURY were always the better team and would have considered themselves unlucky to have drawn , let alone lose . |
| 11 | Lack of confidence in the ‘ Portrait of Michael Wohlgemut ’ attributed to Durer resulted in failure at £380,000 ( est. £600,000–800,000 ) while Sotheby 's must have considered themselves unlucky not to find a buyer for the rare Garofalo ‘ Calumny of Apelles ’ ( lot 41 , est. £200,000–300,000 ) , an important but difficult canvas . |
| 12 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 13 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 14 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 15 | He had even taught himself classical Greek . |
| 16 | She was there all right , standin' on one leg — 'ere , yer done yerself proud , Joe , findin' a nice-looking bit of stuff like 'er . |
| 17 | We may , indeed we have not , always made ourselves popular in arguing for reform of humanitarian aid system but it has certainly been effective and we are never , but never , ignored . |
| 18 | He had made himself prime ministerial : adopting double-breasted suits and gold-rimmed spectacles , shortening his sentences and restraining his instinctive jerks of the head . |
| 19 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 20 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 21 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 22 | The Magistrate , mortified , had made himself scarce . |
| 23 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 24 | Thankfully , Doctor Agrippa had made himself scarce , realising that d'Aubigny 's invitation did not extend to him . |
| 25 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 26 | However , the great Wallaby no.8 , Tim Gavin , after missing the World Cup — and being sorely missed there — has recovered and made himself available for selection . |
| 27 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 28 | Access to Pharaoh : Ramesses II is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners ( compare 5:15ff . ) . |
| 29 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 30 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |