Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [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 | SOCCER ace Gary Lineker has set himself a tough new goal — learning Japanese in just six months . |
| 17 | In addition to suffering the longstanding US economic blockade , Cuba has found itself in 1990 and 1991 coming to terms with new threats to its economic viability . |
| 18 | To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 20 | The search for a new chief , to be led by Akers and managed by IBM 's board nominating and executive compensation committee , which is chaired by James Burke , a former chairman of Johnson & Johnson , will be conducted both within and outside the company , and IBM has given itself 90 days to complete the process . |
| 21 | The ill-feeling around Mrs Mandela 's trial will make the talks tougher , especially because the ANC has identified itself closely with Mrs Mandela . |
| 22 | Agassi has proved himself extremely capable against Europeans , Australians and at least one Canadian . |
| 23 | The pair of them have lands both here in England and over in Normandy , and since Geoffrey of Anjou has made himself master of Normandy , on his son 's behalf , every man in Stephen 's backing fears for his lands over there , and must be tempted to change sides to keep Anjou 's favour . |
| 24 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 25 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 26 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 27 | ENCHANTA has proven herself , having sailed in most of the oceans of the world and has performed admirably , whether for long distance cruising , day sailing , or corporate entertaining . |
| 28 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 29 | This ‘ I ’ is the first-person narrator inside the frame of the provincial chronicle , the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into . |
| 30 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |