Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 2 | It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers . |
| 3 | Until recently Chandler have busied themselves producing guitar parts and accessories — everything from high-quality necks and exotic wood bodies to various pickups and just about every guitar-orientated nut and bolt you can think of . |
| 4 | Founded in 1971 DIOK have built themselves up as the strongest outfit in Holland and were Dutch champions in 1981 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 and 1992 . |
| 5 | Jensen have priced themselves out of the market in the recession . |
| 6 | Although they have said No , the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs have left themselves with a way out . |
| 7 | Cambridge have shown themselves to be fast starters but Bangert has sometimes lacked the rhythm to capitalise on an early lead , while Oxford , though led in practice races , have rowed strong opponents down . |
| 8 | Cambridge have picked themselves up in recent weeks . |
| 9 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 10 | FC Brugge have steadied themselves after losing to Marseille in their last European match and suffering a domestic backlash . |
| 11 | Let us not forget that players such as Wade Dooley have found themselves in much the same position as the Frenchmen described ! |
| 12 | Thus , Cliftonville have pushed themselves very much into the picture and can enhance their claim by taking care of RUC at Newforge . |
| 13 | Both UDF and RPR have resigned themselves to a two year ‘ cohabitation ’ under the Socialist presidency of Francois Mitterrand . |
| 14 | The Bank of Ireland and National Westminster have burnt themselves in New England . |
| 15 | In recent well-publicised cases , SSDs have found themselves paying compensation to victims of crimes committed by young people in their care . |
| 16 | I think Lewisham have got themselves into a ludicrous state over people er . |
| 17 | To be fair to the Tories , would Lady Whitelaw , Lady Howe or Lady Ridley have subjected themselves to the magazine make-over ? |
| 18 | Rentokil have established themselves in this market through a unique management structure . |
| 19 | Trends have since changed , however , and Mudhoney have forced themselves to jump on the major label bandwagon , if only to survive . |
| 20 | Should Wasps ' Lozowski and Oti have made themselves only available for Poland ( or even Italy ) and Nigeria respectively and/or been barred from playing in League One ? |
| 21 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 22 | But the Mahomeds have established themselves as solid citizens . |
| 23 | His dealings with the chief sources of Opera North 's subsidy , the Arts Council and Leeds City Council , are happy enough , and he has successfully scotched a dismal plan to merge with Scottish Opera , but he worries that Leeds lacks a ‘ coherent cultural policy ’ of the sort that Birmingham and Glasgow have committed themselves to . |
| 24 | Disease-resistant cultivars at Snowshill have shown themselves to be Rosa rugosa ‘ Roserie de l'Hay ’ , R. rugosa ‘ Frau Dagmar Hartopp ’ , R. ‘ Excelsa ’ , ‘ Felicite et Perpetue ’ and ‘ Felicia ’ , Rosa spinosissima and Rosa rubrifolia . |
| 25 | Spartak have proved themselves the masters of away goals and just one tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool 's hopes . |
| 26 | Spartak have proved themselves the masters of scoring away goals and just one strike tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool 's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals . |
| 27 | The second argument is that the governments of the EC have committed themselves to the goal of Monetary Union in communiqués at the end of summits in the past . |
| 28 | Hytner , Warner and Branagh have declared themselves uninterested in the executive hassle of running our large subsidised companies . |
| 29 | MIDDLESBROUGH have set themselves a target of remaining unbeaten to the end of the season to clinch a place in the Premier League . |
| 30 | That much accomplished , the yeast presumably could be spread over Seveso in Italy , Times Beach in Missouri , and other places where chlorinated aromatics such as TCDD have insinuated themselves into the environment . |