Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 2 | Those who think that Jenny herself is a little dull at times might conclude that Patrick has impaled himself on that point , like one of those Romans whose language he used to teach . |
| 3 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 4 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 5 | The Parnham Trophy is open to both amateurs and professionals : as John Makepeace has said himself , ‘ the amateur can so often teach the professionals a thing or two ! ’ |
| 6 | In recent years Winters has interested himself in making objects of glass and ceramics . |
| 7 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 8 | The alignment of the station does not have to change at all to take account of the new east route into London in favour of which my right hon. and learned Friend has declared himself . |
| 9 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 10 | But instead of announcing free and fair elections to these powerful bodies , Mr Ishaq has occupied himself manipulating the most important of them , that in Punjab . |
| 11 | Linda has got herself someone who is great and they are both very happy . ’ |
| 12 | But here HM has done itself proud . |
| 13 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 14 | ‘ Bobby has proved himself to be something of a medical miracle already by his resilience to the treatment . ’ |
| 15 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 16 | Paris gave the immediate illusion of spaciousness and grandeur ; the swelling pride of Louix XIV and Napoleon had expressed itself in truly monumental architecture . |
| 17 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 18 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 19 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 20 | Bernice had found herself resenting their casual familiarity . |
| 21 | Thinking in terms of his mother 's back yard in Hoylake , the washing sagging between poplar trees , Meredith had prepared himself for details of death . |
| 22 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 23 | Mrs Doughty-Wylie had constituted herself his godmother after her husband had been killed in Gallipoli and she induced him to change his name and join this regiment . |
| 24 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 25 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
| 26 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 27 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 28 | He pointed to the fact that with respect to Korea the United States had associated itself with others of the United Nations in support of Korea 's cause and , in that sense , therefore , Korea 's position transcended a definition of interest by a line drawn in any direction . |
| 29 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 30 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |