Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 2 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 3 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 6 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 7 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 8 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 9 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 10 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 11 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 12 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 13 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 14 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | The Shah went in there and paused in front of the graben image of the ruthless and brilliant army officer who had seized power in 1921 , and ended the Qajar dynasty , proclaimed himself the new Shah , the first of the Pahlavi dynasty , and begin to recreate Ira . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 18 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 21 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 22 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 23 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 24 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 25 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 26 | It called itself the European Parliamentary Assembly and symbolically arranged the seating of delegates by political affiliation rather than by nationality . |
| 27 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 28 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 29 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 30 | Dulles replied that a good many countries in the world saw themselves the same way . |