Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And is there , perhaps , ’ asked Martin , pressing her floury hand into his , ‘ a happy man in this household who has … ’ he paused , ‘ who has the honour to call himself Mr Jones ? ’ |
| 2 | The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot . |
| 3 | Of all that she had learned that afternoon , the only possible hope lay in trying to establish the real identity of the woman calling herself Delia Forbes . |
| 4 | But when the Mirror attempted to contact MISTER Hooton we were told he was unavailable … by a colleague calling herself MISS Russell . |
| 5 | When they did not arrive , a man calling himself Richards rang and said : ‘ Sorry I am late , Mr Johnson . |
| 6 | Miss Giles said she booked the film to fill a mid-afternoon slot after a man calling himself Jean-Marc Brennez phoned and offered it . |
| 7 | A man calling himself John Haydon had lured him there with a request for advice on pensions . |
| 8 | The seventeen year old girl was raped after she accepted a lift from a man calling himself John outside the King Billy Pub in Northampton … |
| 9 | In order to extricate himself Rafsanjani gave details of the entire American arms-supply operation to the Lebanese magazine Al-Shiraa which published them on 3 November , the day after Jacobsen 's release . |
| 10 | Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult , and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait 's exit , before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan , now perfectly confident of his discovery , named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos — All Saints ' Strait . |
| 11 | Mr Jason , a small hotelier , accepts a crossed cheque marked ‘ not negotiable ’ from a guest calling himself B. Smythe for £10 in payment of his bill . |
| 12 | As the guest calling himself Mr Smythe did not have legal title to the cheque , he could not give legal title to the hotelier ; therefore , the cheque would not be paid and the hotelier would suffer the loss . |
| 13 | As of late November the Nasir group still claimed to control Malakal , whereas the government account stated that the town had been attacked abortively by a group led by a local religious leader , and Garang 's wing of the SPLA was said to be claiming that the town had been captured by " southern nationalists " within the army , aided by the southern rebel faction calling itself Anyanya II . |