Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 2 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 3 | They must have a a lead guitarist or somebody who fancies themselves as a lead |
| 4 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 5 | A tramp of extravagant delapidation , who attaches himself like a dog , punctuates silences with spit then suddenly , on the crest of a belch , intones in an astonishingly cultivated voice , ‘ Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , miserere nobis ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |