Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not paid himself a proper wage for four months . |
| 2 | She watched , round-eyed , as several men-at-arms , pikes in hand , marched by on their way through the gate , and tried not to imagine herself a prisoner in their charge . |
| 3 | DAVID Capper , the BBC Radio Ulster reporter with one of the best-known voices on the air , has just clinched himself a fantastic new job . |
| 4 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 5 | Her heroine on the show is Lightning and she has already christened herself the junior version , Spark . |
| 6 | We got here just in the right season , and I assure you he has already shown himself a great enemy to the feathered tribe , having shot a great many beautiful birds and robbed various others of their nests and eggs . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher has already proved herself a remarkable figure . |
| 8 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 9 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 10 | LARK LANE has always considered itself a little French . |
| 11 | Used to playing second fiddle to its Mitsubishi rival and happily mopping up any disappointed Shogun buyers who failed to get their hands on one of the current quota , the Trooper has still etched itself a firm place in the off-roader scene and remains , as it usually has been , an underestimated vehicle . |
| 12 | The Royal Bank of Scotland has probably guaranteed itself a future recruitment crisis with the introduction of a range of designer wear for staff . |
| 13 | Edward York makes him more of a Friar Larry , Romeo 's dishevelled contemporary , one of the lads who has unaccountably found himself a Franciscan . |
| 14 | Whilst it is true to say that it might have started off that way ( call me a sceptic if you will ) , it has now found itself a major market position . |
| 15 | Every so often it will flap again to give itself a little more power and lift . |
| 16 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 17 | So the other night my , the girl next door to us , her husband does painting and he 'd just got himself a new van I said fucking hell I said to him sometimes I said there 's a van outside I wan na know who it is , is that still on ? |
| 18 | Pale with shock perhaps ; she 'd just bought herself a mink . ’ |
| 19 | All during the night , over and over again , she had found it absurd that she 'd ever considered herself a happy woman . |
| 20 | He 'd often asked himself the same question . |
| 21 | I came out to get myself a drink and stepped on the edge of the bar of the block , taking a big chunk of skin out of my foot . |
| 22 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie played superbly to earn himself a share of the lead after hitting a five-under-par 66 in the opening round of the Johnnie Walker Classic in Australia yesterday . |
| 23 | Arnulf always considered himself a member of the court , although his services were somewhat sporadic and sometimes unappreciated by the king and his other advisers . |
| 24 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 25 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Linking the TriAxis up to a Boogie Fifty/Fifty power amp and ART Multiverb Alpha to build a simple MIDI rig ( the same setup as for last month 's Marshall JMP-1 review ) , I set about organising myself a set of sounds . |
| 27 | ‘ Should we allow a member who has narrowly avoided bankruptcy to keep on calling himself a chartered accountant ? ’ |
| 28 | His wife , Belinda , Herbert 's mother , is the ‘ only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight ’ , who has been brought up to consider herself a deprived aristocrat : ‘ she had grown up highly ornamental , but perfectly helpless and useless ’ , and spends her time studying Court guides , leaving her household and seven younger children to the haphazard care of the servants . |
| 29 | But most important , please decide today to give yourself the financial protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 30 | ‘ Gary has gone on to prove himself an international class player . |