Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 3 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 6 | It is a superbly-run event staged upon a sumptuous golf course , and although it is the youngest of the four major championships , it has built itself a tradition founded on the legendary career of Bobby Jones . |
| 7 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 8 | During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject . |
| 9 | Thiercelin knelt to pour himself a mug of soup from the bowl in the hearth . |
| 10 | She 's old money and as snooty as they come , while he 's the typical self-made second-generation Italian who wants to buy himself a piece of class . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That young fellow Robertson has got himself a market share and nobody else is offering a similar product . ’ |
| 12 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 13 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 14 | There are players now valued in the £2m bracket who ca n't hold a candle to Ian in terms of ability and George Graham must be thinking he has bought himself a star on the cheap . |
| 15 | If you 've time to spare and you want to give yourself a pleasure , the Italian boy 's schooling Miss Dersingham 's big fellow . ’ |
| 16 | The answers involve asking ourselves every time we are ill , what benefits that illness brings us . |
| 17 | I have been in touch with Jeanette ; she has found herself a job and seems to be settling down , while hoping for a visit from a certain young man ! |
| 18 | You want to spoil yourself a bit , that 's what . ’ |
| 19 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 20 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 21 | He has set himself the task of trying to discuss the agenda Labour needs to develop over the next two decades on issues such as training , education and poverty . |
| 22 | India , for example , has set itself a target of providing 80 per cent sanitation in towns , 25 per cent in rural areas , and water for all . |
| 23 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |
| 24 | The Marton Road secondary has set itself a target of £1,200 . |
| 25 | The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university . |
| 26 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 27 | But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task . |
| 28 | Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes . |
| 29 | For example , the West Midlands Regional Health Service has set itself the target of achieving a minimum of 33% of women non-executive directors who will advise on and develop the Regional Health Authority 's policy . |
| 30 | Sweden has set itself the target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions at 1986 levels by the year 2010 . |