Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 3 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 4 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | Our relationship had formed itself by an aggregation of layers . |
| 6 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 7 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 8 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 9 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 10 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 11 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 12 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 13 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 14 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |
| 15 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 16 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 17 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 18 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 19 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 20 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 21 | and Schiemann J. , and in the latter by Hoffmann J. The W. H. Smith case took the form of an appeal to the Divisional Court from the Crown Court , by way of case stated , against the conviction of the two defendant stores for Sunday trading ; the Torfaen decision was published after the hearing before the Crown Court and before the hearing before the Divisional Court and , it being plain that the Crown Court had misdirected itself on the effect of article 30 , the Divisional Court quashed the convictions . |
| 22 | By the time English had situated itself as a centre of learning and teaching at all universities in the early 1930s , its ethos and evaluative criteria were those associated with a masculine profession , rather than with a programme of national cultural intervention . |
| 23 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 24 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 25 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 26 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 29 | In addition the strategic significance of the railways had impressed itself on the Bolsheviks . |
| 30 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |