Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry .
2 Of course , this is not all there is to life , and Hildamay finds true contentment by adopting a nine-year-old girl who introduces herself on the tube .
3 It explains that ‘ the picture that emerges is of a group of people who were keen to engage in farming on their own account and who established themselves on a smallholding , often many years ago , but who have failed to progress beyond this first step in the farming ladder .
4 I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals .
5 He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility .
6 Both , through a happy combination of theory and circumstances , were places in which enormous responsibilities were entrusted to a handful of inexperienced young men , who proved themselves on the job .
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