Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |