Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had taught myself the basics but learning the ‘ wrinkles ’ from someone more experienced saves time and increased the ‘ professional ’ look of garments . |
| 2 | At last he saw that , if he was ever to eliminate his old habits , then he must refuse to do anything at all until he had given himself the directions . |
| 3 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 4 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |
| 5 | She had booked herself a bed at a YWCA hostel for the time being . |
| 6 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 7 | Vincentius had won himself a name as a reputable physician . |
| 8 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 9 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 10 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 11 | Reid insisted that his team had done themselves a favour in their quest to make a late run for Europe and that any favours done for neighbouring causes were only coincidence . |
| 12 | Therefore it had made itself a ladder . |
| 13 | Izzie had made herself a dress . |
| 14 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 15 | This friend , whose name was Beverley , had built himself a house in Caernarvonshire , near the Snowdon mountains . |
| 16 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 17 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 18 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 19 | He would have defended her with lawyers against any attempt of her husband 's to get her back , but there was none ; perhaps , as he himself had barked out in jest , Arkwright had got himself a mistress . |
| 20 | He had got himself a bar cloth and a bunch of paperclips and looked like he meant business . |
| 21 | The most disreputable of all the tabloids had got itself a scoop . |
| 22 | He had been lightly campaigned as a two-year-old but had shown himself a three-year-old of the highest class by his two facile Goodwood victories , and he started a 7–4 chance at Doncaster . |
| 23 | Labour at Brighton last week had shown itself a party of disposable ideals and throwaway conviction . |
| 24 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 25 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 26 | She had called herself a drab . |
| 27 | But he felt he had proved himself a man , at twenty-three , and , as the returning warrior , had a belief that there would be no parental opposition . |
| 28 | Frere was unaware of it but his sister-in-law had spared herself the burden of a second letter . |
| 29 | I had found myself a champion ! |
| 30 | Wycliffe thought that Gifford Tate had found himself a girl wife , one who , however unconsciously , was looking for a daddy or , perhaps , a hero rather than a husband . |