Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] [verb] [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 | SOCCER ace Gary Lineker has set himself a tough new goal — learning Japanese in just six months . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
5 | ONE Stalkinghorse cantered to the starting gate yesterday ; though , in the most congenial of mixed metaphors , Sir Anthony Meyer prefers to call himself a ‘ burnt offering . ’ |
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 | The company has done well in the last year so Mr Jones decides to give himself a 15% rise , the supervisory staff a 10% rise and the non-supervisory staff a 5% rise . |
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 | 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 . |
15 | WITH the prospect of a five-year term , John Major has set himself a formidable agenda . |