Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Montgomerie radiated confidence and respect for the course , it was a typically down-beat Sandy Lyle who prepared to re-acquaint himself with the course where he made his U.S. Open debut in 1980 . |
| 2 | The weekend saw the official BAFTA awards to all those luminous darlings who managed to outshine themselves over the past year on TV or film , and the release of the England averages for their Indian tour , along with the Coopers&Lybrand ratings of Test cricketers . |
| 3 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 4 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 5 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 6 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 7 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 8 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 9 | On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony . |
| 10 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |
| 11 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 12 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 13 | Mr Major was a man who had humiliated himself in the Commons defeat over the European Committee of the Regions , he said , adding that the Prime Minister had been forced to ‘ hop into bed ’ with a party pledged to destroy the Union . |
| 14 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 15 | She made a move to pass him and join Marguerite , who had established herself in the back seat , but his arm barred her way . |
| 16 | With all due respect to those who intended to avail themselves of the free offer , the first two appointments were not met with sufficient organization to permit cost-effective equipment testing . |