Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 2 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 3 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 4 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 5 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 6 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 7 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 8 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 9 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 10 | ‘ Their precious Republic has ruined itself over the Naples war . |
| 11 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 12 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 13 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 14 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 15 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 16 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 17 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 18 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 19 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 20 | Try to ensure that it has relieved itself before the journey , and do not feed the dog immediately before setting out , since this appears to increase the risk of travel sickness . |
| 21 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 22 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 23 | Now that there is one , it 's a little late to get hysterical — better to accept the consolation that the animal has integrated itself into the landscape , almost as if a place was waiting for it . |
| 24 | Moving is development in IBM — and to bring that full circle , the depth of well developed IBM people has demonstrated itself in the company 's extraordinary ability to get so many thousand people into new jobs , even in new places . |
| 25 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 26 | In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan . |
| 27 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 28 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 29 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 30 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |