Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
4 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
5 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
6 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
7 | 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 ) . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
10 | Checking his watch , he poured himself a last drink and sank into one of the easy chairs before the fire . |
11 | As Ashley poured herself a second cup of rich dark coffee at a side-table , she frowned again . |
12 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
13 | But chided herself the next moment . |
14 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
15 | The left-armer denied himself a sixth by wasting a cowardly bouncer on Malcolm . |