Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 6 | Checking his watch , he poured himself a last drink and sank into one of the easy chairs before the fire . |