Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | GARY SPEED has set himself a double task — to resurrect the fortunes of club and country . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | SOCCER ace Gary Lineker has set himself a tough new goal — learning Japanese in just six months . |
4 | However , ownership of the Sussex Cricketer has proved itself a much higher quality asset than a promising ream , and the £62,500 rental from it flows straight through to the bottom line , as do some handsome donations . |
5 | Maggie Byrne had bought herself a black silk dress from a secondhand clothes shop in Seven Dials to wear for Paddy 's burial . |
6 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
7 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
8 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
9 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
10 | The Marton Road secondary has set itself a target of £1,200 . |
11 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
12 | The company has done well in the last year so Mr Jones decides to give himself a 15% rise , the supervisory staff a 10% rise and the non-supervisory staff a 5% rise . |
13 | If Beth had got her just rewards , Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny . |
14 | Mr Fox planned to build himself a home very near the village , of which he had plans ready , but unfortunately he passed away before it was built . |
15 | EDDIE Murphy has declared himself a servant of God . |
16 | And , in the view of Liberals , Mr Lloyd George has shown himself a faithless trustee of their traditions and beliefs . |
17 | WIMBLEDON boss Joe Kinnear promised to buy himself a walkie-talkie last night after landing a month-long touchline ban , writes Ben Bacon . |
18 | Mike Gatting has proved himself an excellent one-day captain , winning several trophies with Middlesex during the 1980s . |
19 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
20 | A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved . |
21 | Wycliffe thought that Gifford Tate had found himself a girl wife , one who , however unconsciously , was looking for a daddy or , perhaps , a hero rather than a husband . |
22 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
23 | WITH the prospect of a five-year term , John Major has set himself a formidable agenda . |