Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pn reflx] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 2 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 5 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |