Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dulles replied that a good many countries in the world saw themselves the same way . |
| 32 | He believed Mortimer Cropper thought himself the lord and owner of Ash , but he , Blackadder , knew his place better . |
| 33 | SLUGGER O'TOOLE did himself a big favour in reverting to his real name of Fidel Castro ! |
| 34 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |
| 35 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 36 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down with laughter so that his hat fell off the back of his head and even the officer allowed himself a smile . |
| 37 | ‘ This morning the Emperor instructed , ’ the Patrician allowed himself the luxury of a scowl , ‘ instructed me , Gorphal , to protect this Two Flower person . |
| 38 | For the Kalmar project the company set itself the objective : |
| 39 | To help pay off the debts my mother got herself a job . |
| 40 | She therefore advertised the garage as being for rent , and at the same time got herself a job as a secretary to an insurance broker , to fill in the time until Peter should be at home permanently or a family should arrive . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 43 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 44 | The women who worked in the butchers ' section distinguished themselves the most during that very special battle . |
| 45 | When they had left , when she had watched them leave together , Mother allowed herself a moment of exultation . |
| 46 | Death poured himself a mug of tea and took another slice of bread and butter . |
| 47 | Having established that his visitors did not want a drink , the businessman poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic . |
| 48 | The urban lower middle class was broadly nationalist , while class-conscious workers , with the support of the majority , were deliberately anti-nationalist ( the Czech Communist Party declared itself the party of Czech , German , Slovak , Hungarian , Ruthenian and Polish workers ) . |
| 49 | She found it obnoxious that her son permitted himself a living relationship when , like her , he should be occupying himself exclusively with a dead one . |
| 50 | The castle earned itself a place in modern history on 1 July 1969 when it was the setting for the Investiture of HRH Prince Charles as Prince of Wales . |
| 51 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 52 | The left-armer denied himself a sixth by wasting a cowardly bouncer on Malcolm . |