Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 4 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 5 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 6 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 7 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 8 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 9 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 10 | Checking his watch , he poured himself a last drink and sank into one of the easy chairs before the fire . |
| 11 | As Ashley poured herself a second cup of rich dark coffee at a side-table , she frowned again . |
| 12 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 13 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 14 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |