Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 2 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Robert Knolles , whose origins were said to be very humble , made a fortune out of war service in the 1350s and 1360s , and may be taken as typical of the successful captains with no inherited wealth who raised themselves by their military skills . |
| 5 | Hilary was a boy who saw himself as a connoisseur of experience . |
| 6 | ‘ Strictly for the servants — and Japanese of course , ’ added a lady who introduced herself as Mrs Fawcett , and asked anxiously , ‘ Do you play bridge , Doctor ? ’ |
| 7 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He sat down beside the uniformed girl who introduced herself as Elsa from Hamburg . |
| 10 | Alice in Wonderland is a text adventure game based on the very famous story 2f a young girl who finds herself in a strange land full of strange creatures and strange places . |
| 11 | The god of Creation in Aboriginal legend ; known as Yulunggu , he appears as a rainbow snake who arches himself across the sky early in the rainy season . |
| 12 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 13 | Even just the memories of 1988 Winter Olympics folk hero Eddie ‘ the Eagle ’ Edwards , the British ski jumper who put himself in the Calgary Games regardless of a lack of skill or training , made more of an impact with the American sporting public than super-fit and talented rugby players such as David Campese , Jeremy Guscott or Wade Dooley . |
| 14 | Yet the only writer who knew himself to be mortally ill and yet managed to achieve great things was Franz Kafka : ‘ It is not easy to build an oeuvre knowing that one has a revolver pointed at one 's neck . ’ |
| 15 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 16 | Otto Preminger — or Otto the Ogre — was another Viennese-born film director who established himself as a man many loved to hate . |
| 17 | A gunfight that stretched from dawn until night as the group who believed themselves to be Ukrainian patriots held out , without hope of rescue or reinforcement , against the encircling advance of Moscow 's soldiers . |
| 18 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 19 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 20 | Ira Dilworth was a leader who endeared himself to all he worked with ; he was strict , but firm and fair , and he had that somewhat rare ability to see and understand another 's point of view . |
| 21 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 22 | ROB and Ali Campbell of UB40 , the band who call themselves after an unemployment relief form , are delighted to be on their way back to Belfast . |
| 23 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 24 | But Harris , who made 47 in the first innings and Puddle who promoted himself in the batting order had other ideas . |
| 25 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 26 | Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces . |
| 27 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 28 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 29 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |
| 30 | The military historian , James Lucas , who served in Tunisia as Keyes 's runner , remembered him as ‘ a gallant Christian gentleman who sacrificed himself for the men under his command ’ . |