Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls .
2 A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider .
3 However , if one error is fatal , two can not be worse , so by causing a recombination element R has given itself an evens chance of survival , whereas without recombination it had none .
4 After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy .
5 So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ .
6 At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace .
7 Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says .
8 It is a superbly-run event staged upon a sumptuous golf course , and although it is the youngest of the four major championships , it has built itself a tradition founded on the legendary career of Bobby Jones .
9 It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities .
10 During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject .
11 She 's old money and as snooty as they come , while he 's the typical self-made second-generation Italian who wants to buy himself a piece of class . ’
12 ‘ That young fellow Robertson has got himself a market share and nobody else is offering a similar product . ’
13 R. Bennett in North Yorkshire has won a Washburn XS8 bass and an Ampeg SVT15EV combo , and Campbell Tidey of Hertfordshire has got himself an Epiphone EM-2MR guitar and the Crate G160XL guitar combo .
14 She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job .
15 He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things .
16 There are players now valued in the £2m bracket who ca n't hold a candle to Ian in terms of ability and George Graham must be thinking he has bought himself a star on the cheap .
17 I have been in touch with Jeanette ; she has found herself a job and seems to be settling down , while hoping for a visit from a certain young man !
18 The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks .
19 York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention .
20 He has set himself the task of trying to discuss the agenda Labour needs to develop over the next two decades on issues such as training , education and poverty .
21 India , for example , has set itself a target of providing 80 per cent sanitation in towns , 25 per cent in rural areas , and water for all .
22 An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months .
23 The Marton Road secondary has set itself a target of £1,200 .
24 The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university .
25 Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive .
26 But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task .
27 Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes .
28 For example , the West Midlands Regional Health Service has set itself the target of achieving a minimum of 33% of women non-executive directors who will advise on and develop the Regional Health Authority 's policy .
29 Sweden has set itself the target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions at 1986 levels by the year 2010 .
30 Britain has just 8 megawatts of wind power capacity installed to date , compared with 35 MW in India , 250 MW in Denmark and 1,400 MW in California — which has set itself the target of meeting 10 per cent of energy needs through wind power by the year 2000 .
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