Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 2 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 3 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 7 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 8 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 9 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 10 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 11 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 16 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 17 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 18 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 19 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 20 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 21 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 22 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 23 | Dulles replied that a good many countries in the world saw themselves the same way . |
| 24 | Perhaps the disco-dancers of 1986 saw themselves the same way . |
| 25 | Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles . |
| 26 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 27 | He accounted himself the unluckiest man alive . |
| 28 | The Supreme Soviet also officially renamed itself the Moldavian Parliament . |
| 29 | It blithely renamed itself the Belorussian Party . |
| 30 | It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation . |