Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would certainly be the case for someone like Gordon Cooke , the Free Presbyterian minister of Rasharkin , who found himself chairman of the ‘ parent ’ branch of the officially constituted Protestant Unionist Party largely because he was a strong supporter of Paisley 's political line and a leading evangelical in the Bannside area at the time when Paisley decided to stand against O'Neill . |
| 2 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 3 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 4 | The country 's first President , David Dacko , was ousted in 1966 in a coup led by Col. Jean-Bedel Bokassa , who proclaimed himself Emperor of the Central African Empire . |
| 5 | In the late ninth century the Byzantines temporarily reasserted their control over the Croats , but in 924 Tomislav , župan of Nin , declared himself King of the Croats and established a kingdom free from both Frankish and Byzantine rule . |
| 6 | However , Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk had signed a decree on Dec. 12 appointing himself commander of the estimated 1,200,000 Soviet troops in Ukraine , and on Dec. 17 , following a vote in the republican Supreme Soviet , Azerbaijan 's President Ayaz Mutalibov declared himself Commander-in-Chief of the " non-strategic " military forces stationed in Azerbaijan . |
| 7 | Wexford had amiable , sometimes distinctly fond feelings for his subordinate , but occasionally Burden made him impatient , especially when he instituted himself keeper of the chief inspector 's conscience . |
| 8 | Johannitsa of Bulgaria , who styled himself emperor of the Bulgarians and Wallachians , wanted support for his regime against both Hungary and the Byzantine empire . |