Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they . |
| 2 | Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service . |
| 3 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 4 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 5 | Calls himself the prince of bandits . ’ |
| 6 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 7 | The Prat Who calls Himself The Hit Man |
| 8 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 9 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 10 | ‘ That interloper who was in the car , calls himself the Doctor apparently — he 's on his way to the cemetery . |
| 11 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 12 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 13 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 14 | it 's kind of it 's it 's calls itself the Treasure Chest now . |
| 15 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |
| 16 | This afternoon , Kevin Tamati , last seen demonstrating an ability to talk fellow television commentators into submission , finds himself the object of Granada 's broadcast as his new charges look for first points from Leigh . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 18 | The poor citizen , bewildered by its ever-changing complexities , finds himself the victim of the muddled thinking and uncertain draftsmanship of the legislators who have multiplied words without knowledge , and must try to understand and then live with an Act of which he has suffered great difficulty and delay in obtaining a copy . |
| 19 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 20 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 21 | By making an order , the trial court denies itself the chance to observe the demeanour of the witness and especially his reaction to cross-examination . |
| 22 | By leaving when he does , he still gives himself the chance of a second female but he minimises the risk of being cuckolded . |
| 23 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 24 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 25 | If the Government sets itself the job of providing a framework of laws which enables families to meet those personal goals , the country will grow in prosperity and stability . |
| 26 | Erm , well C commands roughly it 's just a noun phrase , which can endow the pronoun with a reference or an interpretation , so if Florence saw herself Florence is a noun phrase and gives herself the reference Florence . |
| 27 | He considers himself the victim of a plot , regards the asylum as Hades , and refuses to accept that he is mad . |