Example sentences of "[pn reflx] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 2 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 3 | The chain 's director , himself an experienced hairdresser , was going to come to the salon to put things right . |
| 4 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 5 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 6 | Edmondson , meanwhile , has bought himself an adjustable music stool with some of his £100 , and given the rest to charity . |
| 7 | Lord Harlech was himself an admirable choice to lead the newcomers but it was unwise and insensitive to use the family name in the title of an ITV station half of which belonged to the West Country . |
| 8 | Teddy shows no expression , he simply walks across the room and makes himself an instant coffee . |
| 9 | Pourquery displayed a variety of touch shots and moved with great athleticism about the court , to defeat his net rushing opponent 6–4 6–7 6–2 and earn himself an intriguing place in the final against Hunter . |
| 10 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 11 | Various areas of reform were on the agenda ; Lini , himself an Anglican priest , was known to be concerned at the proliferation of fundamentalist sects and cults in the country . |
| 12 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 13 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 14 | The Emperor takes personal command of his army whenever possible , and has earned himself an impressive record of victories and conquest . |
| 15 | Making himself an extra five hundred pound a year for er having been a naughty boy when he was a teenager . |
| 16 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 17 | Brown 's fellow Birchfield member Aston Moore , himself an international representative , who left Kingston , Jamaica , for Handsworth when aged 9 , conceded : ‘ Educationally , I was n't really into it . |
| 18 | ‘ Gary has gone on to prove himself an international class player . |
| 19 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 20 | Not that his system was susceptible to such discomforts , but he fancied himself an empathic soul . |
| 21 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 22 | Erm and had he had he patented it or I do n't know about exactly the timing , he might have made himself an absolute fortune . |
| 23 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 24 | In the end of course , he snapped , gave himself an early coronary . |
| 25 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |
| 26 | As on his visit to Peking in May , the Soviet President this weekend risks finding himself an unwilling player in a domestic political drama which eclipses the notional reason for his presence . |
| 27 | Seve hit a great tee-shot and left himself an eight-foot putt . |
| 28 | Lloyd George had already boxed the compass by declaring himself an unrepentant and convinced free trader ’ ; Baldwin 's policy , he said , was ‘ unutterable folly ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 30 | Although counting himself an enthusiastic Darwinian , he favoured a Lamarckian view of the evolutionary mechanism and was strongly influenced by the idealist trend in pre-Darwinian biology . |