Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frere was unaware of it but his sister-in-law had spared herself the burden of a second letter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error . |
| 4 | Labour at Brighton last week had shown itself a party of disposable ideals and throwaway conviction . |
| 5 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |