Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart ( 31 ) will join the Glens this week and has set himself a three week target to be ready for first team action . |
| 2 | The Emperor takes personal command of his army whenever possible , and has earned himself an impressive record of victories and conquest . |
| 3 | THE Albert Fisher fresh food distributor is to raise £180million to fund expansion and has found itself a strong shareholder in the process . |
| 4 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
| 5 | They developed a sort of regimental spirit about it , and started calling themselves the Firm . |
| 6 | Ronnie returned to his native Midlands to become senior coach at Wolves in March 1965 , have completed exactly 100 League games for us and having made himself a popular fellow here at Selhurst Park . |
| 7 | Realising that she would probably be dismissed on the spot if Esther should discover her , she closeted herself in the pantry and proceeded to pour herself a glass of sarsaparilla from the big earthenware jug there . |
| 8 | He asked for and was sent Sketches of Anatomy for Artists ' Use , and struggled to teach himself the complexities of bones and muscles by endless copying . |
| 9 | He dropped the poker and went to pour himself a much-needed drink . |
| 10 | Puzzled and anxious and feeling very flat , after the heady excitement of her flight , Sara picked up her bags and went to find herself a seat on the bus going into London . |
| 11 | Impatiently she jumped out of bed and went to run herself a bath perfumed with her favourite bath-foam . |
| 12 | We structure the data into simplified snapshots , attributes , traits and types , and attempt to give ourselves the understanding we need and to predict the behaviour of others from this process . |
| 13 | Rainbow gets the show back on the road , and tries to give herself a little holiday from auntly interventions by searching the radio bands for a local traffic report . |
| 14 | I started to put together a little library and had to teach myself a lot more before I could teach anyone else . |
| 15 | 3–8- The Free Presbytery of Islay met and resolved to constitute themselves a Kirk Session , and on 30–10 did so again , considered nominations and elected Neil McNeill of Laggan and Charles McNeill of Lossit elders . |
| 16 | Barring coups , the four Southern Cone presidents will all still be in office in 1994 , and have set themselves a target that is also a spur . |
| 17 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |
| 18 | He had been lightly campaigned as a two-year-old but had shown himself a three-year-old of the highest class by his two facile Goodwood victories , and he started a 7–4 chance at Doncaster . |