Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved .
2 Frere was unaware of it but his sister-in-law had spared herself the burden of a second letter .
3 Reid insisted that his team had done themselves a favour in their quest to make a late run for Europe and that any favours done for neighbouring causes were only coincidence .
4 Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error .
5 Labour at Brighton last week had shown itself a party of disposable ideals and throwaway conviction .
6 She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman .
7 In the long term the papacy had shown itself a " Western " power to be reckoned with in diplomatic and monarchical terms — a power , what is more , that claimed to be able to decide between states on their moral actions , ratione peccati .
8 In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny .
9 Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted .
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