Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 2 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 3 | Both the CDU and the SPD sought to give themselves a mass membership , a national organisation and wide popular appeal , though the CDU at first proved far better at fulfilling the last aim . |
| 4 | With the approach to independence , when the game at last was clearly lost , administrators began to permit themselves a certain degree of cynicism about the loyalty of the Masai . |
| 5 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 6 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 7 | There were some hills around me , so I decided to build myself a little house on one of them . |
| 8 | A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved . |
| 9 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 10 | He dropped the poker and went to pour himself a much-needed drink . |
| 11 | He managed to get himself a special bed at Bedford Institution on pretence of sickness , which proved quite unfounded . |
| 12 | On March 11 it voted to proclaim itself a sovereign body whose decisions would be binding and not subject to government authority . |
| 13 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 14 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 15 | I wanted to find myself a quiet corner and curl up in it . |