Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 2 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 3 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Built himself a shit-hot reputation and moved firms three , maybe four times , before the Bang . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 10 | Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it . |
| 11 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 12 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 13 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 14 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 15 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 18 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 19 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 20 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 21 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 22 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 23 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 24 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 25 | He also got himself a new caddie , Froggy Davies . |
| 26 | We each filled ourselves a small glass of vodka , and he said , ‘ George Dionisovich , I will try to help you for your kind heart and for your kind deeds ’ . |
| 27 | He proclaimed himself a devout servant of the God of Israel . |
| 28 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 29 | He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti . |
| 30 | The political scene was transformed in February and March , when the National Conference of Active Forces of the Nation , a policy-making national conference convened to approve certain reforms , proclaimed itself a sovereign body , suspended the Constitution and all existing state institutions , and appointed Nicéphore Soglo , a former World Bank administrator , to form an interim government [ see pp. 37238-39 ; 37308 ] . |