Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | That was attended by a group who called themselves the Militia of Christian Youth — Catholic ultras . |
2 | I 'm still not sure whether anyone lives on Monte Cristo , but there was an eccentric Englishman who proclaimed himself the Count . |
3 | ‘ And then perhaps , ’ conceded the Superintendent , ‘ there was our own St Manicus , killed , as legend has it , by a madman who thought himself an executioner . ’ |
4 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
5 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
6 | The revolt against the Mr Bush 's presidency a ran all to Mr Clinton 's benefit and not much to that of Mr Perot , the acid-tongued Texas billionaire who styled himself the unorthodox candidate of protest . |
7 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
8 | In 1957 , on Sir Anthony Eden 's resignation , the Queen apparently sought and acted upon the advice of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Salisbury , both elder statesmen of the Conservative Party who had themselves no personal ambitions at stake , and who appeared to have the confidence of their own party . |