Example sentences of "has [verb] himself a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During the passage of this Bill , my hon. Friend has made himself an expert on the subject . |
| 6 | ‘ That young fellow Robertson has got himself a market share and nobody else is offering a similar product . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | EDDIE Murphy has declared himself a servant of God . |
| 13 | If a boy has to prove himself a man by his performance , then a girl has to prove herself a woman by her attractiveness , her desirability . |