Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Icke was the party 's national spokesman 17 months ago when he donned a turquoise tracksuit to announce himself the son of God on a mission to save the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 4 | She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father . |
| 5 | With ‘ Slack ’ , the band 's second indie release , nestling freshly in the racks , Bivouac find themselves the objects of slavering major label attention on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 7 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 8 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |
| 9 | Jacobs ' folly had been to play ‘ Ca n't Happen Here ’ ‘ by a group of American male singers calling themselves the Mothers of Invention ’ on BBC TV 's Juke Box Jury , adding that the record had been made on a ‘ trip ’ . |
| 10 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 11 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 12 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 13 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 14 | The situation was complicated by the actions of other armed groups , possibly dissident units of the Jungle Commando , including the seizure on Oct. 13 of the bauxite mining town of Moengo , 100 km east of Paramaribo , by a group calling itself the Union for Liberation and Democracy , and by the growing involvement of both rebel and Army-backed groups in the production and trafficking of illegal drugs , particularly cocaine . |
| 15 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 16 | The security services on June 10 managed to prevent the holding of a nationalist rally in Frunze called by a group calling itself the Kirghiz Democratic Movement . |
| 17 | Czechoslovakia 's opposition acquired a colourful new facet yesterday , when a group calling itself The Ladybirds launched its manifesto . |
| 18 | A group calling itself the Partido Comunista Maoista " Puka Inti " ( " Red Sun " Maoist Communist Party ) claimed responsibility on Dec. 9 for a series of bomb attacks on public buildings in Quito carried out in protest against the government 's privatization policy . |
| 19 | The Labour Party says the Tories have lost the right to call themselves the party of law and order . |
| 20 | Back in 1983–84 , around 20 or 30 individuals styled themselves the Polo Posse — later Lo Lifes — setting out to steal ( ‘ boost ’ ) Ralph Lauren gear to wear , and resell to the growing number of black kids turning from the B-boy aesthetic to the preppy look , going from LL Cool J to LL Bean . |
| 21 | FOUR YEARS ago , Wirral plucked up the courage to make itself the centre of the finger-pickin' universe . |
| 22 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 23 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Nazis made themselves the beneficiaries . |
| 26 | In several towns rioting broke out , rioting for peace , and Nazis found themselves the victims of the kind of abuse and maltreatment they normally handed out to others . |
| 27 | Few people give themselves the time to think clearly about their own futures . |
| 28 | The zebra was released by people calling themselves the Animal Liberation Front |
| 29 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 30 | The official responsible for explaining this stance hanged himself the week before I read this book . |