Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 2 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 4 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 5 | Consequently , instead of being censured , Mr Reed finds himself a heroic front-runner in the 1991 Guttersnipe Man Of The Year contest . |
| 6 | DUBLINER Martin Sludds gave himself a major boost with a sparkling 68 over the hugely demanding K Club course at Straffan , to lead the Smurfit Irish PGA Championship by four shots at the halfway stage . |
| 7 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 8 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 9 | ‘ Later , ’ went on the vicar , ‘ Donald Templeton showed himself a skilful cross-country skier , on and off piste , a witty raconteur and an enthusiastic do-it-yourselfer . |
| 10 | Arthur Kobold cut himself a generous wedge and thrust the better part of it into his mouth . |
| 11 | Private Boyd allowed herself a raised eyebrow as she went by . |
| 12 | Nicolo Sabatini permitted himself a little smile . |
| 13 | And Judge Lawrence Verney allowed himself a wry little smile . |
| 14 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 15 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 16 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |