Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris gave the immediate illusion of spaciousness and grandeur ; the swelling pride of Louix XIV and Napoleon had expressed itself in truly monumental architecture . |
| 2 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 3 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 4 | When he first returned , my friends on the surgical side had made themselves fresh caps daily and spent hours on their faces before going on duty . |
| 5 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 6 | Who just sighed and said that penguins had driven themselves blind , even mad , by watching that dangerous nonsense up there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 9 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 10 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 11 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 12 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 13 | Bernice had found herself resenting their casual familiarity . |
| 14 | Thinking in terms of his mother 's back yard in Hoylake , the washing sagging between poplar trees , Meredith had prepared himself for details of death . |
| 15 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 16 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 17 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 18 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 19 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 20 | I know , because Eliot told me : he also disclosed , what he usually kept to himself , that after the poet had drunk himself to death , and hearing that his widow was in difficulties , he had provided liberal help , though whether she was aware of the fact I do not know . |
| 21 | Mrs Doughty-Wylie had constituted herself his godmother after her husband had been killed in Gallipoli and she induced him to change his name and join this regiment . |
| 22 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The laird who sought the politician 's aid had found himself in an embarrassing predicament when a brother had unexpectedly returned to the family estate after many years spent at sea . |
| 25 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 26 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 27 | By Christmas all three main opposition parties had dissolved themselves . |
| 28 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 29 | She believed the department had left itself extremely vulnerable in acting without any form of approval by the committee . |
| 30 | Since the Third Department had convinced itself that Sunday schools were hotbeds of sedition , it was hardly surprising that in June 1862 the government closed them down . |