Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 2 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 3 | He 's a world-famous scientist searching for a cancer cure , she 's the spiky assistant who proves herself by falling for him . |
| 4 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 5 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 6 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 7 | Of course , this is not all there is to life , and Hildamay finds true contentment by adopting a nine-year-old girl who introduces herself on the tube . |
| 8 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 9 | Anyway poor Ophelia emerges as a tragic woman who drowns herself in a river , flowers in her hand , hair spread out like a veil around her . |
| 10 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 11 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 12 | Alice in Wonderland is a text adventure game based on the very famous story 2f a young girl who finds herself in a strange land full of strange creatures and strange places . |
| 13 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |