Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 2 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 3 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 4 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 5 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 6 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 7 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 8 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 9 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 10 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 11 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 12 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 13 | Built himself a shit-hot reputation and moved firms three , maybe four times , before the Bang . |
| 14 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 17 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 18 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 19 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 20 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 21 | Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it . |
| 22 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 23 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 24 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 25 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 26 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 27 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 28 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 29 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 30 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |