Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [prep] [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Richard took it upon himself to make his friend more sociable , bringing him up from the country for dinners and parties , to Oldfield 's obvious disinterest . |
| 2 | Without my knowledge or authorisation , Reg took it upon himself to hand the Press a list of star names I was proposing to bring to the club . |
| 3 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 4 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 5 | What did surprise me however was that some of my colleagues in the Commons took it on themselves to force me and others to change their minds . |
| 6 | Sam took it upon herself to plaster the walls . |
| 7 | Pius took it upon himself to proclaim the Dogma of the Assumption . |
| 8 | Rabbi Moishe nodded energetically , and Father McGiff took it on himself to applaud — a lead which the rest of the audience immediately followed . |
| 9 | Naturally , Mozart wrote it for himself to play . |
| 10 | There were still loose ends in her working week so her sister Sarah took it upon herself to tie them up . |
| 11 | After Alaric 's death , Theodoric took it upon himself to defend the Visigoths , and to punish their attackers . |
| 12 | Still worse , Joye took it on himself to revise Tyndale 's New Testament without authorisation in an edition which was full of unscholarly amendments . |
| 13 | And , since Rachmaninov wrote it for himself to play , it demands a tremendous technique from the soloist . |
| 14 | Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project . |
| 15 | While the withdrawal of Peter Elliott and Tom McKean weakened the European Relays competition held in tandem with a field event international match between Britain , Italy and Hungary , the Tynesider took it upon himself to elevate the proceedings with the kind of form that suggests he could challenge for an Olympic triple jump medal in Barcelona in two months ' time . |
| 16 | Before George could answer , however , Bob Lamb took it upon himself to reply . |