Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 4 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 5 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 6 | In minds less critical and less sophisticated than Augustine 's , relics soon became themselves the seats of holy power , God 's preferred channels for miraculous action . |
| 7 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 8 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 9 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 10 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 11 | He still granted himself the licences of old age — even if he was n't entitled . |
| 12 | ‘ But he WAS going to get what I really , deeply wanted myself the excitement of first being in love . |
| 13 | At the same time , the " whole way of life " towards which this change seemed to be directed was in conflict with the values of the " literary tradition " of which most English teachers still considered themselves the guardians . |
| 14 | The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome . |
| 15 | The authorities also gave themselves the most important voice on the gentry committees which were to decide on land boundaries and the size of the peasants ' payments . |
| 16 | It blithely renamed itself the Belorussian Party . |
| 17 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 18 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 19 | The Supreme Soviet also officially renamed itself the Moldavian Parliament . |
| 20 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 21 | Or had been , she mentally corrected herself The tapes represented proof of his involvement in the theft of the letters and , by inference , in Beatrix 's murder . |