Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came downstairs , she slopped all the way through to the kitchen made herself a cup of tea and sat |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |
| 4 | A BURGLAR cooked himself a hearty meal after breaking into a fish and chip shop . |
| 5 | The boy raised himself a little from the bed . |
| 6 | I have in some sort made myself a party to your situation , and it will go hard with my conscience if you find yourself no better blessed than in your old condition . |
| 7 | Tom Otterness of the allegory of greed got himself a lot of unfortunate notoriety some years ago by shooting a dog as a work of performance art . |
| 8 | The owner who worked full time in the business paid himself a salary of £9,000 and also withdrew £1,000 in cash from the business to pay a pressing personal debt . |
| 9 | Town should have been two or three up … but Ipswich went back in front thanks to a John Wark penalty justice was done near the end when Town won themselves a penalty … and what do you reckon was going through Paul Bodin 's mind … the man who missed the penalty that could have given wales a world cup place was on the spot again … |
| 10 | Forester allowed himself a novelist 's licence in The Hornblower Companion , where admirably executed maps with concise accompanying comment helped to establish the factual background of his stones . |
| 11 | Forester allowed himself a quiet groan of relief . |
| 12 | If her father got himself a place she 'd go and live with him . |
| 13 | Nevertheless on arriving in Sydney I was brought into the Theosophical Centre , and before I had been there a week found myself a very interested enquirer . |
| 14 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 15 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 16 | At Warwick last Saturday , Storm Alert confirmed himself a horse to follow with another impressive success , and at Newbury tomorrow stablemate Country Member can sustain his own progress with a win in the Lionel Vick Handicap Chase . |
| 17 | Receivers a bank appointed under the terms of a debenture did themselves a disservice recently when they failed to pay themselves first out of the proceeds of the receivership , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment . |
| 18 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 19 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 20 | The formal date for compliance was July 1985 but , as Nigel Haigh notes in EEC Environmental Policy and Britain , in 1983 the UK government set itself a target of complying with the lead limit only by December 1989 . |
| 21 | The WPBSA 's constitution does not permit player-directors to be paid , but the board voted itself a 50 pence per mile travelling allowance in 1984 and doubled it to £1 per mile this year . |
| 22 | The doctor allowed herself a smile . |
| 23 | The Friar cut himself a slice of crusty bread and a large segment of cheese . |
| 24 | SLUGGER O'TOOLE did himself a big favour in reverting to his real name of Fidel Castro ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To help pay off the debts my mother got herself a job . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |