Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm still not sure whether anyone lives on Monte Cristo , but there was an eccentric Englishman who proclaimed himself the Count . |
| 2 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |
| 3 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 4 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 5 | The Prat Who calls Himself The Hit Man |
| 6 | Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick . |
| 7 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 8 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 9 | That was attended by a group who called themselves the Militia of Christian Youth — Catholic ultras . |
| 10 | On Jan. 25 Diana Turbay Quintero , a journalist and one of eight people held hostage for several months [ see p. 37772 ] by drug traffickers of the Medellín and Calí cartels , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , was fatally wounded , apparently by her captors , when police tried to rescue them . |
| 11 | In response to the confirmation that extradition was now banned by the constitution , the leaders of the Medellín drug cartel , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , stated in a communiqué released on July 5 that they had decided to disband themselves and the cartel 's military structure and were ending all action against those they had previously considered as enemies . |
| 12 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 14 | Hercegovina achieved a degree of autonomy under Stevan Vukšić , who gave himself the title Duke ( 'Herceg' ) of St Sava ( 1448 ) in honour of the Serbian royal saint of the thirteenth century . |
| 15 | This , however , will not be tolerated even by those who call themselves the centre , and a major split will become unavoidable . |
| 16 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 17 | The students , who call themselves the EC Unwelcoming Committee shouted : ‘ Its your slump , we wo n't pay . ’ |
| 18 | In 1348 they demanded free trade in wool , and in 1351 achieved a definitive victory when the king agreed that the maltote should be granted only in parliament and that all merchants should be permitted to deal in wool ‘ without being restricted by those merchants who call themselves the king 's merchants ’ . |
| 19 | Like the trio of drinkers he meets in a Co Waterford pub who call themselves the KGB — because their surnames are Kelly , Gallagher and Boland . |
| 20 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 21 | The revolt against the Mr Bush 's presidency a ran all to Mr Clinton 's benefit and not much to that of Mr Perot , the acid-tongued Texas billionaire who styled himself the unorthodox candidate of protest . |