Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [pron] " 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 | She , who prided herself on her intelligence ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aggie was a spotlessly clean woman who prided herself on her housekeeping . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Clinton , who got himself in plenty of trouble during the campaign for not inhaling marijuana , is unlikely to go that far . |
| 9 | who lives himself through you . |
| 10 | The son who helped himself to your money before running off ? |
| 11 | This award was instituted in 1900 in recognition of French firemen who distinguished themselves through their courageous actions ; or those who completed thirty years of irreproachable service . |
| 12 | Had n't he already said that he disliked women who threw themselves at him ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 14 | Students who financed themselves through their courses were the most likely of any group to be seeking employment . |
| 15 | ‘ I have no interest in a woman who prefers herself to anyone else . ’ |
| 16 | Victorious in war , and victorious also against the wiles of amorous Atene , Leo is taken to the ruler , who reveals herself to him as Ayesha and challenges him to view her in her hideous age . |
| 17 | One could take the view , for example , that important constraints on social equality are imposed by the opportunities available in society , regardless of who avails themselves of them , and that we do not want a measure that is insensitive to such constraints . |
| 18 | Tait and Stewart sought to show not the truth of Christianity , but its compatibility with modern science , and the narrowness of those who contented themselves with what they called ‘ how ’ questions and never with ‘ why ’ . |
| 19 | With Romania seething next door , Mr Luchinsky will have his work cut out to capture the spirit of Stefan the Great from those who present themselves as his heirs . |
| 20 | Or likewise an introvert does n't necessarily mean it 's a person who does n't talk to anybody who keeps themselves to themselves and is a miserable , it 's not like that at all . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A man who barricaded himself into his house after threatening to shoot a tax inspector has walked free from court . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A suicide verdict has been recorded on a hospital patient who hanged himself with his dressing gown cord . |
| 25 | This has been a considerable help to the many students who finance themselves through their HCIMA studies . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Shrewsbury , whilst defending the restoration in public and denouncing the Catholic peers who distanced themselves from it , felt that the triumphalist attitude of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman [ q.v. ] |
| 28 | The development , of platinum , chrome manganese and iron ore mines had brought new white technicians and black workers , and there were Indian and Jewish communities , engaged largely in commerce , who kept themselves to themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ They were a quiet couple who kept themselves to themselves . ’ |
| 30 | Salomon was a studious boy , with no friends , who kept himself to himself . |