Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 3 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 4 | Doogie allowed himself a small smile of satisfaction as Shifty-Eyes hit the road , then he turned and grabbed Pointy-Beard 's tie . |
| 5 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 8 | Anya permits herself a triumphant smirk as she passes the mirror ; Rainbow seems to have forgotten my existence . |
| 9 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |
| 10 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 11 | Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it . |
| 12 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 13 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 14 | I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows , or a maze of evergreen , or a field of rippling corn , or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries . |
| 15 | Ukraine proclaimed itself a nuclear-free republic on Aug. 28 , seeking the removal to Russia of nuclear weapons currently stationed on its territory . |
| 16 | Briant allowed himself a small sigh of irritation . |
| 17 | Let us try setting some adjectives of this type into ordinary sentences : ( 34 ) our future chairman smokes heavily Lorraine showed herself a real friend Charlie 's old school has some fine pictures The obvious points may be made : the " chairman " is already alive , there need be no doubt about Lorraine 's existence , and Charlie 's school may be relatively new . |
| 18 | A BURGLAR cooked himself a hearty meal after breaking into a fish and chip shop . |
| 19 | For the mass of Muslims this is a non-issue — though I think British and European Muslim communities did themselves a colossal disservice in the beginning by failing to dissociate themselves properly from terrorist acts . |
| 20 | On 17 , and level with Gower , Gooch off-drove Paul Reiffel for four on the stroke of lunch to earn himself a prolonged standing ovation . |
| 21 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 22 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 23 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 24 | Fred merely nodded and picked up the paper , pretending to be engrossed in an article , and Carrie afforded herself a sly grin . |
| 25 | Connor allowed himself a crooked smile . |
| 26 | Now he watched in horrified silence as Donald cut himself a giant slice of poisoned meat . |
| 27 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 28 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 29 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 30 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |