Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had given herself a fair amount of time to get to Luke 's , and if she left the motorway at the next junction and did n't hang around she 'd be only a little late at the most . |
| 2 | By the time the last participant cruised into Las Palmas the crew of Eevin had earned themselves an affectionate notoriety . |
| 3 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 4 | Malta had proclaimed itself a neutral state with a policy strictly founded on principles of non-alignment in 1981 . |
| 5 | The attack came shortly after a " committee of public salvation " , led by hardline Latvian CP leader Alfred Rubiks , had proclaimed itself a rival government to that of President Anatolijs Gorbunovs . |
| 6 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 7 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 8 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
| 9 | Maggie Byrne had bought herself a black silk dress from a secondhand clothes shop in Seven Dials to wear for Paddy 's burial . |
| 10 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |
| 11 | Acting president Kadreddin Aslonov , appointed after the Aug. 31 resignation of Kakhar Makhkamov because of the coup [ see p. 38373 ] , issued on Sept. 22 a decree banning the activities of the Communist Party of Tajikistan ( which on Sept. 21 had renamed itself the Socialist Party of Tajikistan ) and nationalizing its property . |
| 12 | By the time he retired in 1917 , Whitelegge had proved himself a hard-working administrator . |
| 13 | Kim Ku was no longer of any real importance but Rhee had proved himself a formidable politician ; he had rallied moderate opinion , curbed the exuberance of his more militant supporters , and made conciliatory moves towards the Russians . |
| 14 | Guy had proved himself a past master at the art . |
| 15 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 16 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |
| 17 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 18 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 19 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |
| 20 | In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny . |
| 21 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 22 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 23 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) . |
| 24 | It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute . |
| 25 | Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error . |
| 26 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 27 | There was a faint affront on the girl 's face , as if she knew Rachaela had denied herself a similar vileness and suffering , the secrets of the female club . |