Example sentences of "[verb] himself the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 3 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 4 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 5 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 6 | Knowing what Edmund has done to his real father might have given Cornwall pause before proclaiming himself the next one . |