Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 2 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 4 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 6 | Sergeant Bramble allowed himself the luxury of a fleeting smile . |
| 7 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 8 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 9 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 10 | He believed Mortimer Cropper thought himself the lord and owner of Ash , but he , Blackadder , knew his place better . |
| 11 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 12 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 13 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 14 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |
| 15 | During the 1980s , Leeds LEA set itself the task of reforming an entire local system of primary education . |