Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we got ourselves an Ordnance Survey map for the year of my birth and were able to prove that houses had indeed existed there , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 4 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 5 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 6 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 7 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 8 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 9 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 10 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 11 | In the early 1920s , when the industry was increasingly the preserve of the studios , Goldwyn found himself an outsider , an independent producer in competition with the majors . |
| 12 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 13 | At Chiswick Burlington built himself a villa , modelled on the Villa Rotonda of Palladio , but Pope at Twickenham had a villa too which was also expressive of Palladian principles ( Figs 3a , 3b ) . |
| 14 | He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ? |
| 15 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 16 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 17 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 18 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 19 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 20 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 21 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 22 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
| 23 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 24 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 25 | ‘ She found herself a job as a telephonist at the GPO , ’ Lily said . |
| 26 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 27 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 28 | After she had given Miguel time to pay the bills and get away , she retraced her steps and found herself a table at a café in an arcade in one of the ornamental squares by a pretty fountain . |
| 29 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 30 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |