Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 2 | He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist . |
| 3 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 4 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 5 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 6 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 7 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 8 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 9 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |
| 10 | Glenn Hoddle wo n't be naming his side , until he 's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain . |
| 11 | The other event that I remember well was when my Uncle Ned could have made himself a bit of money when a bird was shot down in mistake for a grouse . |
| 12 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 13 | He had just made himself a cup of coffee and sat in his mum 's kitchen smoking a cigarette . |
| 14 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 15 | During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject . |
| 16 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 17 | This friend , whose name was Beverley , had built himself a house in Caernarvonshire , near the Snowdon mountains . |
| 18 | ‘ He believed in the code of loyalty and silence but he could have done himself a favour by letting us know where all the gold was . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The call-offs mean that if anybody plays well against Germany he will have done himself a lot of good for the immediate future . ’ |
| 20 | Prime Minister John Major could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had followed that advice over David Mellor , the former Heritage Minister . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
| 22 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 23 | There are players now valued in the £2m bracket who ca n't hold a candle to Ian in terms of ability and George Graham must be thinking he has bought himself a star on the cheap . |
| 24 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 25 | ‘ Connelly 's just bought himself a warehouse down by the docks . ’ |
| 26 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |
| 27 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 28 | He had been lightly campaigned as a two-year-old but had shown himself a three-year-old of the highest class by his two facile Goodwood victories , and he started a 7–4 chance at Doncaster . |
| 29 | The Somali tribes , with whom he had identified himself , might well have rallied to his cause had he in this decisive hour shown himself a leader . |
| 30 | He had got himself a bar cloth and a bunch of paperclips and looked like he meant business . |