Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 4 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 5 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 6 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 7 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 8 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 9 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 10 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 11 | During the 1980s , Leeds LEA set itself the task of reforming an entire local system of primary education . |
| 12 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 13 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 14 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 15 | Haverford gave himself the credit for being reasonably quick-witted , but now the old ex-pat 's meaning had eluded him . |
| 16 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 17 | Sergeant Bramble allowed himself the luxury of a fleeting smile . |
| 18 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 19 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | Zambia allowed hirself the privilege of a suppressed curse . |
| 21 | Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles . |
| 22 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 23 | By adopting the Waste Land theme , Eliot made himself the performer of the latest enactment of a repeated rite , just as in his poem clerk and typist ( like the earlier Burbank and Volupine ) enact their own sexual ritual . |
| 24 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 25 | Just for a moment Merrill allowed herself the luxury of imagination . |
| 26 | In that year Coenwulf allowed himself the luxury of the elaborate royal style rector et imperator Merciorum regni ( CS 289 : S 153 ) , ‘ the first time a western ruler had called himself ‘ emperor ’ in an official record since the Roman Empire ’ . |
| 27 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 28 | Once inside , Charlie crossed himself the way his grandfather always had when entering St Mary 's and St Michael 's in Jubilee Street . |