Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WPBSA 's constitution does not permit player-directors to be paid , but the board voted itself a 50 pence per mile travelling allowance in 1984 and doubled it to £1 per mile this year . |
| 2 | Lorton showed them out and went to the kitchen to pour himself a drink . |
| 3 | Marguerite was sleeping and Jenna crept downstairs in the silent house and made her way to the kitchen to fix herself a milky drink . |
| 4 | She came downstairs , she slopped all the way through to the kitchen made herself a cup of tea and sat |
| 5 | He switched on a few lights , took off his coat and tie and rolled up his sleeves , then he pottered around the kitchen making himself a good night mug of milkless tea . |
| 6 | After turning the volume up again she disappeared into the kitchen to make herself a pastrami on rye . |
| 7 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 8 | You 've lo lost all the opportunities to make yourself a bit more money which is what we 're talking about here . |
| 9 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 10 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |
| 11 | The Museum considers itself a pioneer in the creation of educational programmes , an important component of a museum 's mission when it is the only major art collection within a thousand miles in almost any direction . |
| 12 | Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea . |
| 13 | The boy raised himself a little from the bed . |
| 14 | FOUR YEARS ago , Wirral plucked up the courage to make itself the centre of the finger-pickin' universe . |
| 15 | The owner who worked full time in the business paid himself a salary of £9,000 and also withdrew £1,000 in cash from the business to pay a pressing personal debt . |
| 16 | The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation . |
| 17 | Personally , I 'm off to the chemist to buy myself a bottle of Gee 's Linctus ( active ingredient ; tincture of opium ) . |
| 18 | The Labour Party says the Tories have lost the right to call themselves the party of law and order . |
| 19 | Then it may be in the parties ' interests to leave the money in the account but transfer the benefit of the account to the third party by some other means ; for instance , by the depositor constituting himself a trustee of the account for the benefit of the third party , or by him assigning the money in his account to the third party . |
| 20 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 21 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 22 | If you 're planning to take off to the Far East or Australia , travel First or Golden Club Class with us and we will give you the chance to land yourself a fabulous Jaguar XJ6 in our exclusive passenger competition . |
| 23 | Herbert Morrison , the minister in charge , announced it as ‘ the people giving themselves a pat on the back ’ . |
| 24 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 25 | It was a long jump competition where the athletes did themselves no favours at all by carrying weights . |
| 26 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 27 | The Nazis made themselves the beneficiaries . |
| 28 | If the Government sets itself the job of providing a framework of laws which enables families to meet those personal goals , the country will grow in prosperity and stability . |
| 29 | In such cases it was to the obvious advantage of the farmer to build himself a new farmstead in the middle of his lands . |
| 30 | The Mason bought himself a nest of a wagon , and squirreled up coats and boxes , pots and pans , church silver , salt meat , the wax seals off the petitions , ale kegs and coins of the realm . |