Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 2 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 3 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 4 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 5 | By successfully conspiring to remove Mortimer and Isabella from power Edward had established himself in a position of unchallenged supremacy . |
| 6 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 7 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 8 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 9 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 10 | It was not long after that evening there came the sad news that Herr Bremann had shot himself in a train between Hamburg and Berlin . |
| 11 | Hope had talked himself into a state of indignation . |
| 12 | The three Miss Lovelocks had seated themselves on the window-seat , their silvery heads nodding and trembling , and their glasses , as Ella was not unsurprised to see , quite empty . |
| 13 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 14 | Since its foundation in 1961 , the NDP had established itself as the most successful social democratic party in north America , and as Canada 's third main party at federal level . |
| 15 | Stoltenberg said on Oct. 25 that the study , to be conducted by the High Level Group ( HLG-set up by the NPG in 1979 to look at theatre nuclear weapons ) , would report possibly in 1991 ( ie before the 1992 deadline which NATO had set itself for a decision on short-range nuclear weapons ) , and could form the basis of a mandate for a short-range nuclear forces ( SNF ) treaty . |
| 16 | Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine . |
| 17 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 18 | They had left their cabins early to enjoy the fresh morning breeze , and Joseph had perched himself on a coil of rope beside Chuck at the rail to finish his reading . |
| 19 | Even though her motive may have been a desire to manipulate the situation , her wish was supported by Dr. M. and , initially at least , by Dr. D. In those circumstances I entertain grave doubts that if Thorpe J. had directed himself in the way I have suggested , that W. 's wishes should be respected unless there were very strong reasons for rejecting them , he would have reached the decision which he did . |
| 20 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 21 | Billy had armed himself with a stout stick . |
| 22 | Joe had hitched himself into a sitting position against the bole of a tree , and as he wiped his face he answered , ‘ I 'm … |
| 23 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 24 | Johnson had steered himself into a position of strength from which to conduct his campaign in the election of 1964 . |
| 25 | After the The Lancaster House agreement , Mike had found himself in a similar position to the rest of the Rhodesian Army — overqualified , over-trained , and unemployed . |
| 26 | When he came to the car , Ana had established herself in the back with Mitch and he would have needed to be extremely unpleasant to order them out . |
| 27 | SARFU had to distance themselves from the happenings at Ellis Park ’ , said French . |
| 28 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 29 | But I followed landmarks — the glade of birch saplings ; the drift of unmelted snow where Kāli had helped herself to a frozen drink : the huge pine tree whose trunk had been gouged to a tenth of its width for jharo . |
| 30 | He was in uniform , very much in the situation in which Lewis had found himself as an undergraduate at Univ . |