Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 10 | Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces . |
| 11 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 12 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 15 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 16 | ‘ I have no interest in a woman who prefers herself to anyone else . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 18 | Anyway poor Ophelia emerges as a tragic woman who drowns herself in a river , flowers in her hand , hair spread out like a veil around her . |
| 19 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 20 | He 's a world-famous scientist searching for a cancer cure , she 's the spiky assistant who proves herself by falling for him . |
| 21 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 22 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 23 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 24 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 25 | Some of these are used to bring about an ‘ altered state of consciousness ’ in which reality can be perceived in different ways , not unlike our chaos magician who throws himself into his ‘ void ’ . |
| 26 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 27 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 28 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |