Example sentences of "[pn reflx] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ALAN CORK , aiming for his 150th League goal this weekend , has set himself a new target — to join the 200 Club . |
| 32 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 33 | A player who has thrived on goals throughout his career , suddenly no longer finds himself a regular name on the scoresheet . |
| 34 | Promising young batsman , Ian Place , seems to have booked himself a regular spot in A Division side . |
| 35 | Whether or not he could call himself a Chief Rabbit , he had no experience of this sort of thing . |
| 36 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 37 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 38 | His image being created in the image of God , he has to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation ; and , by making these laws his standard of action , to conquer nature to his use , himself a divine instrument . " |
| 39 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |
| 40 | He slammed the phone down and allowed himself a small smile . |
| 41 | Luke allowed himself a small smile then gave a brief nod in Merrill 's direction . |
| 42 | Doogie allowed himself a small smile of satisfaction as Shifty-Eyes hit the road , then he turned and grabbed Pointy-Beard 's tie . |
| 43 | As he pulled back the perspex canopy he permitted himself a small smile at Stallen , whom he knew . |
| 44 | He had married several times , bought himself a small harem of slave girls , and gained a reputation as a traveller and a teller of interesting tales . |
| 45 | Briant allowed himself a small sigh of irritation . |
| 46 | D'Arcy stood back from the patient and lit himself a small cigar . |
| 47 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |
| 48 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 49 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 50 | He allowed himself a faint smile of satisfaction then slipped the five-dollar note under Rosie 's glass and left the bar . |
| 51 | He eased back from her , only allowing himself a partial penetration . |
| 52 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 53 | By this stage too , the young king , who was himself a committed Protestant , was beginning to exert his own personal influence . |
| 54 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 55 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 56 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 57 | By the time he retired in 1917 , Whitelegge had proved himself a hard-working administrator . |
| 58 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 59 | From the persuasive pen of Committee member Richard Hoggart , himself a working class man who had seized the opportunities of formal education , the critique flowed power-filly . |
| 60 | On the contrary , Mulroney , himself a bilingual Quebecker , although of Irish stock , worked constructively with the province 's premier Robert Bourassa . |