Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 2 | The appellant , who described himself as a self-employed accountant , falsely claimed to be an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 3 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 4 | Finally , there was Miss Marita Calagarri , who described herself as an unemployed ship 's cook . |
| 5 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 6 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 7 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 8 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 9 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 10 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 11 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 12 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 13 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 14 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 15 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 16 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 17 | The police response to Black women and racist attacks is determined by the same factors which affect their response to racist attacks generally : Failure to recognise racial violence/attacks as such and to act accordingly ; delays in their response to a call for help from victims of racial violence ; refusal to recognise the seriousness of a racist attack , and if arrests are made , only the minimum of charges are imposed ; avoiding responsibility for dealing with cases involving racist attacks — by advising victims to pursue civil action through the courts ; the subjecting of those who are victims of racial violence to further racial abuse ; the criminalisation of victims of racist attacks e.g. in Bradford , Newham and only recently two cases from Hounslow one involving 5 boys from Lampton School who defended themselves in a racial attack and were arrested and charged by the police . |
| 18 | The death at the weekend of Siho Iyiguven , who threw himself on a burning mattress at Harmondsworth detention centre , near Heathrow , was followed yesterday with further suicide threats by detainees who barricaded themselves into their dormitory . |
| 19 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 20 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 21 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 22 | Just as the race rekindled Classic hopes for Stoute , the flame was snuffed out for Newmarket trainer Mohammed Moubarak , who blamed himself for the dismal performance of 11–4 favourite Forest Tiger , who trailed in last after coming under pressure at half-way . |
| 23 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 24 | The custodian of this mood of growing calm was the new Prime Minister , James Callaghan , who imposed himself on the public consciousness as a new Baldwin , the apostle of peace in our time . |
| 25 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 26 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 27 | Police are hunting a man who exposed himself to a young schoolgirl beneath the viaduct in North Road , Durham City on Thursday afternoon . |
| 28 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 29 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 30 | Or how about U.S. lock and Air Force captain Kevin Swords , who established himself as a world-class player and leader at the 1991 World Cup , but is still totally ignored in the U.S. outside the rugby community ? |