Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 2 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |
| 3 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 4 | Nor was it much higher among the clergy who found themselves not only heavily taxed without the discretionary right of refusal which they enjoyed in respect of royal taxes , but also threatened with excommunication and ecclesiastical penalties for non-compliance . |
| 5 | A judge should not be seen as a witness who held himself capable of comparing handwriting and reached conclusions of the comparisons . |
| 6 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 7 | Brothel bigwigs are concerned that clients who find themselves tied up may end up being roasted in their handcuffs if fire breaks out . |
| 8 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 11 | One of the authors who addresses himself directly to our main concerns is Ardrey . |
| 12 | Sometimes a midshipman 's place was sheer necessity , as in the case of a son of an Angus freeholder named David Lyell who found himself involuntarily a member of the Royal Navy . |
| 13 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 14 | ‘ SUICIDE AGGRAVATED BY OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE AND LACK OF CARE ’ was the verdict on a Ugandan refugee who hanged himself while in detention in Pentonville Prison . |
| 15 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 16 | Despite the ultimate in Michelin -starred success , Bernard Loiseau is not a chef who takes himself too seriously , discovers Roy Hayter |
| 17 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 18 | The Wren who introduced herself was slim and smart in a uniform which fitted her perfectly . |
| 19 | Unlike many black kids who consider themselves singled out as possible sportsmen because of stereotyping , he found only his PE teacher took an interest in his sport . |
| 20 | When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Shrewsbury , whilst defending the restoration in public and denouncing the Catholic peers who distanced themselves from it , felt that the triumphalist attitude of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman [ q.v. ] |
| 21 | As we have already seen in Chapter 1 , the proportion of the temporary labour force who consider themselves self-employed ( 15 per cent ) is rather higher than that of the workforce as a whole ( 11 per cent ) . |
| 22 | In Syria , which then included present-day Lebanon , the people were tribes without a country , in many cases the inheritors of great religious schisms , often dissidents who had themselves been drawn to the mountains of Lebanon by the physical protection which the terrain afforded them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The class structure is becoming dominated by the knowledge mercenaries who hire themselves out to the feudal barons of top management and state agencies , each of whom is as good as the last battle . |
| 25 | Under the scheme , Teesside youngsters who find themselves homeless in London would be helped to re-settle in the NorthEast . |
| 26 | A NEW scheme to help youngsters who find themselves under pressure and at risk of turning to crime has been welcomed by the Duke of Westminster . |
| 27 | I belong to a Committee who call themselves Women Against Apartheid , and we have been engaged in campaigning a lot against these marital laws . |
| 28 | To obtain the latter , there emerged a peculiarly modern group of businessmen who called themselves ‘ undertakers ’ or ‘ adventurers ’ . |
| 29 | An exception is fellow guest Jamie Lee Curtis who shows herself to be a fervent Soul II Soul fan . |
| 30 | ‘ Welsh ’ is used to describe the ethnic origin of babies of parents who described themselves as either Welsh or English , but their infants as Welsh . |