Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
2 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
3 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
4 | 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 . |
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 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
7 | In minds less critical and less sophisticated than Augustine 's , relics soon became themselves the seats of holy power , God 's preferred channels for miraculous action . |
8 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
9 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
10 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
11 | He still granted himself the licences of old age — even if he was n't entitled . |
12 | ‘ But he WAS going to get what I really , deeply wanted myself the excitement of first being in love . |
13 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
14 | At the same time , the " whole way of life " towards which this change seemed to be directed was in conflict with the values of the " literary tradition " of which most English teachers still considered themselves the guardians . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
17 | He also hired himself a cook-housekeeper-secretary , Cathy Allen , the wife of an actor friend . |
18 | The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome . |
19 | Tremayne said the process saved the owners from wasting money on fruitless horsebox expenses and jockey fees and also saved himself a lot of inexplicable and worrying disappointments . |
20 | Gaily allowed himself a smile . |
21 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
22 | I have never in my life , in public or in private , in earnest or in jest , either called or even thought myself a fascist . |
23 | Besides the fact that he was a Jew , he never even considered himself a dissident . |
24 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
25 | 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 ) . |
26 | Buttons was played by a young Tommy Steele and Ken was Portia , a sister so ugly that he almost frightened himself every time he looked in the mirror . |
27 | and then wrote himself a note to remind himself to untie the blooming thing . |
28 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
29 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
30 | 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 . |