Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Bramble allowed himself the luxury of a fleeting smile . |
| 2 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 3 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 4 | He believed Mortimer Cropper thought himself the lord and owner of Ash , but he , Blackadder , knew his place better . |
| 5 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 6 | During the 1980s , Leeds LEA set itself the task of reforming an entire local system of primary education . |