Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 3 | Or had been , she mentally corrected herself The tapes represented proof of his involvement in the theft of the letters and , by inference , in Beatrix 's murder . |
| 4 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 5 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 6 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 7 | He still granted himself the licences of old age — even if he was n't entitled . |
| 8 | It blithely renamed itself the Belorussian Party . |