Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] himself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 4 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 5 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 6 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 7 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 8 | Haverford gave himself the credit for being reasonably quick-witted , but now the old ex-pat 's meaning had eluded him . |
| 9 | Sergeant Bramble allowed himself the luxury of a fleeting smile . |
| 10 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 11 | By adopting the Waste Land theme , Eliot made himself the performer of the latest enactment of a repeated rite , just as in his poem clerk and typist ( like the earlier Burbank and Volupine ) enact their own sexual ritual . |
| 12 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 13 | In that year Coenwulf allowed himself the luxury of the elaborate royal style rector et imperator Merciorum regni ( CS 289 : S 153 ) , ‘ the first time a western ruler had called himself ‘ emperor ’ in an official record since the Roman Empire ’ . |
| 14 | Once inside , Charlie crossed himself the way his grandfather always had when entering St Mary 's and St Michael 's in Jubilee Street . |