Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 2 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel ashamed to tell you this , Father , but Michael has bought himself another club , this time a bordello . ’ |
| 4 | Computer based , critical path planning ( CPP ) provides confidence that the organisation has carefully considered the requirements and has set itself realistic achievement targets . |
| 5 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 6 | The pace of political concessions has surprised even liberal Jordanians , some of whom express concern that the government , in its anxiety to win a parliamentary vote of confidence , has left itself little room for manoeuvre . |
| 7 | The same has happened at the Department of the Environment : Christopher Patten has conducted himself this week as the antithesis of an ideologue . |
| 8 | The Russian , who has confirmed herself this year as one of the world 's greatest athletes by setting four world records , is said to have tested positive at a meeting in Lievin , France , last month after equalling her 60 metres hurdles world record . |
| 9 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 10 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |
| 11 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |
| 12 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I could have saved myself that fee . ’ |
| 14 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 15 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 16 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 17 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 18 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 19 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 20 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 21 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 22 | Lochmaben lay some fifteen miles down Annandale , its fortalice a former Bruce stronghold , now a royal castle , of which it appeared , since the present Earl of Carrick 's shame and declension , Douglas had had himself appointed Keeper , by the Regent . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 24 | I 've driven myself crazy thinking about you , and now I 'm here … |
| 25 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 26 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 27 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 28 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |
| 29 | I 've asked myself that question time and again . |
| 30 | I 've asked myself that time and time again . |