Example sentences of "[vb past] established [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powerful position in which the landed gentry had established themselves on the Commission of the Peace served to deal with the obviously unacceptable infringements of the law , provided that wrongdoers could be apprehended . |
| 2 | from the mountainous south to the treeless tundra , human communities had established themselves over several millennia , with a way of life which was nomadic or semi-nomadic . |
| 3 | By the end of the century Nonconformity 's most famous ministers had established themselves as leaders in a wide variety of fields : biblical scholarship , local government , reform movements , journalism , history , theology , apologetics and writing . |
| 4 | In those days there existed another Methodist Society , known as the Primitive Methodists , and they had established themselves in Chiswick using a room in Devonshire Road , and working amongst the labouring classes of the community . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the third century a new name appeared in Roman records , though the people to whom it was applied had established themselves in the country much earlier . |
| 6 | His ancestors had established themselves in Dorset in the fifteenth century , and between 1529 and 1713 the parliamentary representation of the county could be described as ‘ in a manner hereditary in his family ’ . |
| 7 | A Khmer Rouge report on the same day alleged that some 200 Vietnamese troops had established themselves in Kampot province in mid-August . |
| 8 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 9 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 10 | The Treasurer was Joseph Barnard , who had established himself as a coal merchant in Bedford by 1773 , after which he founded the bank which bore his name . |
| 11 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 12 | Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 14 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 15 | From this time Louis-Napoleon found himself alone with his mother , as a result of his elder brother 's going to live with their father , for ex-King Louis had established himself in Tuscany and had insisted that his wife entrust their elder son to his charge . |
| 16 | Now that he had established himself in London with a training school and offices , John decided to expand his headquarters in Manchester . |
| 17 | She also warned Quinn of the abrasive Kevin Brown , who had chosen her for this mission and had established himself in London with a team of eight to ‘ keep an eye on things ’ . |
| 18 | By successfully conspiring to remove Mortimer and Isabella from power Edward had established himself in a position of unchallenged supremacy . |
| 19 | A few days later , after we had established ourselves in Montreal , we called him . |
| 20 | The primarily Scottish Nova Scotia Company had established itself on the Atlantic seacoast north of Maine and the Canada Company had in 1628 captured the recently established French base at Quebec , but both of them had to give up their territory when peace was made with France in 1632 , and they faded into financial oblivion . |
| 21 | This meant that the high pressure system which had established itself across the country in the first part of December , and the ensuing hard freeze , was next to useless from a winter climber 's point of view , with the crags totally bare . |
| 22 | By 1959 , it had established itself as the pop sound and a fledgling British rock culture was throwing up performers such as Cliff Richard as challengers to Elvis . |
| 23 | Since its foundation in 1961 , the NDP had established itself as the most successful social democratic party in north America , and as Canada 's third main party at federal level . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1970s , with Norman Lindop having taken over the chairmanship from 1974 , the Committee had established itself as a unit which functioned in parallel with those for science and technology , arts and sciences , and research . |
| 25 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 26 | This was the first record of contact with a physic garden on the continent and so , within a few years , the Apothecaries ' garden had established itself in botanical circles . |
| 27 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | An alien presence had established itself in the heart of the town and people who had no connection with the crime under investigation or any other would feel uneasy until they were gone . |
| 29 | Vang Pao had earlier told the Bangkok Post newspaper of the formation of a " revolutionary government of Laos " which had established itself in Laos and which he had visited on certain occasions . |
| 30 | Visigothic architecture had established itself before the Moslem invasion and was flourishing from c. 450–720 . |