Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Irish religion , Macha ( or Machas ) referred to a compound trinity of goddesses who concerned themselves with childbirth , agriculture and war . |
| 2 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 3 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 4 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 5 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 6 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 7 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 8 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 9 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 10 | In contrast , Stephen Timewell , mayor of Taunton in 1682 – 3 , a man who prided himself as having " tamed these stubborn Fanatics " during his term in office , nevertheless found that he too had to " leave off my shop trade , for ever since I have done these things not one of a hundred comes near me to buy or sell and they make it their business to persuade people not to come near me " . |
| 11 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 12 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 13 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 14 | She , who prided herself on her intelligence ! |
| 15 | They were vetted by Lady Wardley , who prided herself on knowing all the Northumbrian families worth knowing . |
| 16 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 17 | Aggie was a spotlessly clean woman who prided herself on her housekeeping . |
| 18 | Margaret Seymour-Strachey ( who prided herself on being the perfect daughter-in-law ) would do anything for her husband 's mother except bring her children into overmuch contact with her . |
| 19 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 20 | He did recall the rule , he cordially disliked women who flung themselves at his feet threatening breach of promise actions , and moreover he did n't like the look of that jumped-up Pickwick there . |
| 21 | Delaney looked across at Forster , who straightened himself up . |
| 22 | It consisted of a team of people who met on a regular basis and who made themselves available to share their expertise with parents . |
| 23 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 24 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 25 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 26 | The Bishop of Bradford , Coggan , was an evangelical with a quality then rare among evangelical leaders , namely learning , and was a likeable person who made himself respected by good sense at bishops ' meetings . |
| 27 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 28 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 29 | Charlie aged eight with a stinking cancerous hip who propelled himself flat on his back on a trolley made from a pram base , flipper-hands paddling , olive , oval face — too big , all their faces were too big — grinning with flickering contempt as he wound skilfully round Stephanie 's ankles , his foul air preceding him , and behind him decay and a whiff of disinfectant . |
| 30 | Mr Clinton , who got himself in plenty of trouble during the campaign for not inhaling marijuana , is unlikely to go that far . |