Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 7 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 8 | Mr Devlin portrays himself as a dynamic character , bursting with enthusiasm and energy and commitment to the constituency . |
| 9 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 10 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 11 | Of these Tom Cruise established himself as a powerful actor and major star in Rainman ( 1989 ) and Born on the Fourth of July ( 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Outside , in another crush of party faithful , Mr Major restricted himself to a standabout . |
| 13 | ANDERS NEILSEN , the English National champion , staged a fighting comeback against Finland 's Robert Liljeqist to assure himself of a medal and join three Danes in today 's men 's singles semi-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow . |
| 14 | Sir John saw himself as a knight errant , a chevalier , and his little wife Maude as his princess . |
| 15 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 16 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey put himself in a self-conscious pose of memory , as if rehearsing for a television down-memory-lane programme . |
| 17 | Mrs Ridley settled herself in a green velvet armchair , laying her stick carefully on the floor beside her . |
| 18 | Lee Chapman helped himself to a hat-trick in that 6-1 victory but the onslaught really stemmed from Wednesday 's failure to cut out Dorigo 's overlapping runs . |
| 19 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 20 | Count Leo Tolstoy , whose tragic heroine Anna Karenina threw herself under a train , himself died in 1910 at the remote Russian country station of Astapovo . |
| 21 | With a delicate sniff in the direction of a slightly cowed Hester Davis , Mrs Stych enrolled herself as a sleuth in search of an author . |
| 22 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 23 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 24 | It came , therefore , as no surprise when Dorling Kindersley aligned themselves with a major player such as Microsoft who bought 26% of their equity in March , 1991 . |
| 25 | Dean Jones announced himself with a century in the opening Sunday League game , a stirring win over Lancashire , and Ian Botham interspersed some big one-day scores with a vain but valiant century in the opening Championship match . |
| 26 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 27 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 28 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 29 | Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker . |
| 30 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |