Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 32 | In the early 1920s , when the industry was increasingly the preserve of the studios , Goldwyn found himself an outsider , an independent producer in competition with the majors . |
| 33 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 34 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 35 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 36 | No longer need he consider himself a charlatan , an impostor . |
| 37 | He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist . |
| 38 | There is no doubt Norman 's aggressive form of golf is one of the reasons why he appeals to galleries so much , but he might have to contain himself a bit more if he hopes to win on a more regular basis in the future . |
| 39 | " Pure reason ! " barked the Magistrate , unable to contain himself a moment longer . |
| 40 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 41 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 42 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 43 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 44 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 45 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 46 | At Chiswick Burlington built himself a villa , modelled on the Villa Rotonda of Palladio , but Pope at Twickenham had a villa too which was also expressive of Palladian principles ( Figs 3a , 3b ) . |
| 47 | He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ? |
| 48 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 49 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 50 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 51 | Charles had decided on battle as the only way to cut through the competing loyalties and quite literally , reduce the number of Carolingian competitors : thus , as the only way to secure himself a kingdom that included Aquitaine along with the lion 's share of Francia ( as promised originally in 837 ) ; but also , as the only way to secure an outcome all would accept as definitive — a Judgement of God . |
| 52 | ‘ Are we to understand , ’ I cross-examined , ‘ that this is an establishment owned by someone who deems himself a Squire ; or , on the other hand , that this is a location sought out by Squires such as yourself when they desire to quaff ? ’ |
| 53 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 54 | Such as it was , it constituted a public place , and he could no longer guarantee himself the seclusion and privacy of the deserted churchyard . |
| 55 | Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency . |
| 56 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 57 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 58 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 59 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 60 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |