Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 6 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 7 | She , who prided herself on her intelligence ! |
| 8 | They were vetted by Lady Wardley , who prided herself on knowing all the Northumbrian families worth knowing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Aggie was a spotlessly clean woman who prided herself on her housekeeping . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 15 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 16 | The death at the weekend of Siho Iyiguven , who threw himself on a burning mattress at Harmondsworth detention centre , near Heathrow , was followed yesterday with further suicide threats by detainees who barricaded themselves into their dormitory . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The smaller of these , some 1,300 strong , headed by Gen Shandruk himself and Gen Freytag ( who shot himself on 11 May ) , travelled from Judenburg into the US Zone of Austria . |
| 24 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |