Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 3 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 4 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 5 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 6 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles . |
| 8 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 9 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |