Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on reflection I understood that this was no coincidence : Jean-Claude needed a Jew with whom to debase himself in order to have the licence to abuse him in return . |
| 2 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 3 | According to Irish religion , Macha ( or Machas ) referred to a compound trinity of goddesses who concerned themselves with childbirth , agriculture and war . |
| 4 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 5 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 6 | Otherwise you will wander these tunnels until you die , for none who lose themselves beneath Caer Wydyr ever find their way out again . ’ |
| 7 | French criminal ( who also calls himself Blandois and Lagnier ) who prides himself on always living and being treated like a gentleman . |
| 8 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 9 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 10 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 11 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 12 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 13 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 14 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 15 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 16 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 17 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 18 | She , who prided herself on her intelligence ! |
| 19 | They were vetted by Lady Wardley , who prided herself on knowing all the Northumbrian families worth knowing . |
| 20 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 21 | Aggie was a spotlessly clean woman who prided herself on her housekeeping . |
| 22 | Margaret Seymour-Strachey ( who prided herself on being the perfect daughter-in-law ) would do anything for her husband 's mother except bring her children into overmuch contact with her . |
| 23 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 24 | It will not be desired to find all people who absent themselves without leave . |
| 25 | Again in 1699 , criticism was levied of , ‘ … the Mayor and Constables for not punishing of wicked and lazy persons , both old and young , who absent themselves from the service of God and profane the Sabbath Day ’ . |
| 26 | He did recall the rule , he cordially disliked women who flung themselves at his feet threatening breach of promise actions , and moreover he did n't like the look of that jumped-up Pickwick there . |
| 27 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |
| 28 | For Hopkins , " an old crony of Wilson 's and a newcomer , a volunteer " sky pilot " who clad himself in semi-clerical , semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman 's jersey and a gold crucifix " , he evidently had nothing but contempt . |
| 29 | Request : The Liberal ex-chief was asked to write a few words for ‘ Backroom Boys ’ , a book about ‘ men who distinguish themselves without excess , folk quite happy to take a pleasingly light and unimposing approach , and yet who nevertheless make a reasonably fair showing throughout life ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Clinton , who got himself in plenty of trouble during the campaign for not inhaling marijuana , is unlikely to go that far . |