Example sentences of "who [vb past] himself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 4 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 8 | The smaller of these , some 1,300 strong , headed by Gen Shandruk himself and Gen Freytag ( who shot himself on 11 May ) , travelled from Judenburg into the US Zone of Austria . |