Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 2 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 3 | He deliberately shared the limelight with Tom Mboya of Kenya who showed himself a brilliant chairman . |
| 4 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 5 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 6 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 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 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 9 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 10 | In 1957 , on Sir Anthony Eden 's resignation , the Queen apparently sought and acted upon the advice of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Salisbury , both elder statesmen of the Conservative Party who had themselves no personal ambitions at stake , and who appeared to have the confidence of their own party . |
| 11 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 12 | 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 . |