Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 4 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 5 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 6 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 8 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 9 | During the 1980s , Leeds LEA set itself the task of reforming an entire local system of primary education . |
| 10 | Haverford gave himself the credit for being reasonably quick-witted , but now the old ex-pat 's meaning had eluded him . |
| 11 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 12 | Sergeant Bramble allowed himself the luxury of a fleeting smile . |
| 13 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 14 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | Zambia allowed hirself the privilege of a suppressed curse . |
| 16 | Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles . |
| 17 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 18 | By adopting the Waste Land theme , Eliot made himself the performer of the latest enactment of a repeated rite , just as in his poem clerk and typist ( like the earlier Burbank and Volupine ) enact their own sexual ritual . |
| 19 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 20 | Just for a moment Merrill allowed herself the luxury of imagination . |
| 21 | In that year Coenwulf allowed himself the luxury of the elaborate royal style rector et imperator Merciorum regni ( CS 289 : S 153 ) , ‘ the first time a western ruler had called himself ‘ emperor ’ in an official record since the Roman Empire ’ . |
| 22 | Once inside , Charlie crossed himself the way his grandfather always had when entering St Mary 's and St Michael 's in Jubilee Street . |