Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 2 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 3 | Whereas someone more conventional , like Sue Lawley , who describes herself as a ‘ post-feminist woman ’ , is actually much better at drawing out chat show guests . |
| 4 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 5 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 6 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 9 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 10 | They must have a a lead guitarist or somebody who fancies themselves as a lead |
| 11 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A tramp of extravagant delapidation , who attaches himself like a dog , punctuates silences with spit then suddenly , on the crest of a belch , intones in an astonishingly cultivated voice , ‘ Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , miserere nobis ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 18 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And Des Esseintes , the aristocrat recluse in Huysmans Against Nature , who dedicates himself to the diligent pursuit of ever more rarefied and unnatural means of stimulating the senses . |
| 26 | ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’ |
| 27 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |