Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [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 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 7 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 8 | The Marton Road secondary has set itself a target of £1,200 . |
| 9 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 10 | If Beth had got her just rewards , Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny . |
| 11 | EDDIE Murphy has declared himself a servant of God . |
| 12 | And , in the view of Liberals , Mr Lloyd George has shown himself a faithless trustee of their traditions and beliefs . |
| 13 | Mike Gatting has proved himself an excellent one-day captain , winning several trophies with Middlesex during the 1980s . |
| 14 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | WITH the prospect of a five-year term , John Major has set himself a formidable agenda . |