Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 2 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 4 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 5 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 6 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 7 | In less than three years after his demob from the self-indulgent pastures of the peacetime RAF , Richard Burton turned himself into a great young classical actor — the heir and very apparent to Gielgud and Olivier ; and Hollywood was on the line , fishing for a new star . |
| 8 | David Rosen centred himself between the two tall people with his arms raised , a referee weighing his introduction . |
| 9 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 10 | Corbett Farraday let himself into the moderately imposing Edwardian villa which he shared with his mother . |
| 11 | Penny Warlock , Toby Freely and Corbett Farraday grouped themselves around a rickety occasional table , on which was perched one of Mrs Crumwallis 's repulsive collections of cacti . |
| 12 | The Renault Safrane presents itself as an executive express , so this was an appropriate exercise , involving poorly-surfaced roads in Czechoslovakia , the smooth by-ways of Austria and Switzerland , and Germany 's limit-free autobahns . |
| 13 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 14 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 15 | French President François Mitterrand dissociated himself from the statement because of a passage which , praising Soviet moves to democracy and " economic liberty " , said that market economies should be created in the Soviet republics . |
| 16 | Last January Rennie armed himself with an airpistol and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend Marita Brown , after she ended their relationship . |
| 17 | Glasgow St Enoch Square found themselves among the prizewinners for consistently coming up with good , well qualified leads . |
| 18 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 19 | With all her strength Benny Hogan launched herself off the wall down on Maire Carroll . |
| 20 | With the mannerisms of a Sesame Street presenter , Dr Henning announced himself as an ‘ expert in making things disappear ’ and revealed that he would make the ‘ problems of the nation disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light ’ . |
| 21 | The evidence seemed irrefutable , yet Brenda Plumridge found herself without the support of her rescue society , and was subjected to nothing short of blackmail , while two caring citizens who rescued a pair of stray dogs have been harassed — one to the point of near bankruptcy . |
| 22 | The owner , Petra Zuidinga prides herself in the decor which is her own design and you are guaranteed a warm welcome and comfortable stay . |
| 23 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |
| 24 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 25 | Mr Devlin portrays himself as a dynamic character , bursting with enthusiasm and energy and commitment to the constituency . |
| 26 | Mr. Brakspear dissociated himself from the report saying ‘ the error in truth having arisen from the fact that they ( he and Mr. Fryer ) were the only two who went round the links with reporters ’ . |
| 27 | It was not until Ernest Bloch launched himself on the scene , with Three Jewish Poems in 1913 that ‘ Jewish music ’ per se arrived ; even then it was only half-oriental , half-western in style and colouration . |
| 28 | In career terms , Sir Patrick regards himself as the ‘ freak ’ of the Wright family . |
| 29 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 30 | By 17 October Mola 's troops were only 30 kilometres from Madrid , causing President Azaña to remove himself to the safety of Barcelona . |