Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself .
2 She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present .
3 We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it .
4 She had Koresh 's baby and called herself Judy Koresh .
5 He has always worked hard to present himself as a rounded political being and flung himself into debates on law and public safety , the environment and unemployment .
6 He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him .
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