Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 2 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 3 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 4 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 5 | He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist . |
| 6 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 7 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 8 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 9 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 10 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 11 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 12 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 13 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 14 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 15 | She had booked herself a bed at a YWCA hostel for the time being . |
| 16 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 17 | She knew as sure as eggs was eggs that Kate , bless her , had finally caught herself a man . |
| 18 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 19 | They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI . |
| 20 | ( You 've earned yourself a booking ! — Ed . ) |
| 21 | They know the qualifying course as well as any team in Europe and , shortly before 7pm , should have earned themselves a toast in vodka , imported , of course . |
| 22 | Thanks to these admirable qualities war boars have earned themselves a place alongside Orcs , and most Orc settlements have one or more secure pens where the war boars are kept . |
| 23 | His images have definitely earned themselves a place in the visual language of the past two decades , having been published frequently in newspapers , pamphlets and on postcards , though the claim in a recent press release that his Haywain with Cruise Missiles image was now almost as well known as the original painting by Constable does seem a little far-fetched . |
| 24 | ‘ I have fined myself a week 's wages and will be giving the money to charity . ’ |
| 25 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |
| 26 | Glenn Hoddle wo n't be naming his side , until he 's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain . |
| 27 | If you 'd left well alone and not tried to see the child you 'd 'ave saved yerself a lot of heartache . |
| 28 | The other event that I remember well was when my Uncle Ned could have made himself a bit of money when a bird was shot down in mistake for a grouse . |
| 29 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 30 | He had just made himself a cup of coffee and sat in his mum 's kitchen smoking a cigarette . |