Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day Victoria made herself a pair of earrings out of porcelain to go with a particular dress , and they turned out to be the start of a new part-time career . |
| 2 | She came downstairs , she slopped all the way through to the kitchen made herself a cup of tea and sat |
| 3 | Determined to carry on with her education , Judy got herself a tutor for her English , and went to the local college to do maths . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 6 | Edward made himself a cup of tea and vanished to the Britches , where he stayed late into the dusk . |
| 7 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Meredith found herself an interpreter — the son of the cook — and he 'd become her devoted fan . |
| 9 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 10 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 11 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 12 | Buxton proclaimed himself an ‘ enthusiast ’ and in theory wanted existing slaves freed too . |
| 13 | Icke was the party 's national spokesman 17 months ago when he donned a turquoise tracksuit to announce himself the son of God on a mission to save the world . |
| 14 | Meredith allowed herself a moment 's speculation about this never-discussed time in Markby 's life . |
| 15 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 16 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |
| 17 | Doogie allowed himself a small smile of satisfaction as Shifty-Eyes hit the road , then he turned and grabbed Pointy-Beard 's tie . |
| 18 | Be prepared to train twice as hard on your weaker side and each time you feel fed-up through lack of progress , switch to your stronger side to give yourself a boost . |
| 19 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 20 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 21 | Nunzia peeled herself an orange , paring the skin close to the flesh so the padded white endodermis was stripped from the juicy red-flecked flesh , and yet not so close that the fruit spurted juice . |
| 22 | She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father . |
| 23 | With ‘ Slack ’ , the band 's second indie release , nestling freshly in the racks , Bivouac find themselves the objects of slavering major label attention on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 24 | In a letter to Einstein , Freud called himself a pacifist . |
| 25 | Manville permitted himself a smile . |
| 26 | Meredith knew herself no cook but , inspired by the thought that even Aunt Lou at eighty-three could produce a bean casserole , she managed to produce leeks rolled in thin slices of ham , topped with a slightly lumpy cheese sauce . |
| 27 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 28 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 29 | As on his visit to Peking in May , the Soviet President this weekend risks finding himself an unwilling player in a domestic political drama which eclipses the notional reason for his presence . |
| 30 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |