Example sentences of "who [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 2 | ‘ Are we to understand , ’ I cross-examined , ‘ that this is an establishment owned by someone who deems himself a Squire ; or , on the other hand , that this is a location sought out by Squires such as yourself when they desire to quaff ? ’ |
| 3 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 4 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 5 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 6 | I 'm still not sure whether anyone lives on Monte Cristo , but there was an eccentric Englishman who proclaimed himself the Count . |
| 7 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |
| 8 | He deliberately shared the limelight with Tom Mboya of Kenya who showed himself a brilliant chairman . |
| 9 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 10 | But the prospect must presumably appal anyone who calls himself a Conservative . |
| 11 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 12 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 13 | The Prat Who calls Himself The Hit Man |
| 14 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 15 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 16 | Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick . |
| 17 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 18 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 19 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 20 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 21 | That was attended by a group who called themselves the Militia of Christian Youth — Catholic ultras . |
| 22 | On Jan. 25 Diana Turbay Quintero , a journalist and one of eight people held hostage for several months [ see p. 37772 ] by drug traffickers of the Medellín and Calí cartels , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , was fatally wounded , apparently by her captors , when police tried to rescue them . |
| 23 | In response to the confirmation that extradition was now banned by the constitution , the leaders of the Medellín drug cartel , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , stated in a communiqué released on July 5 that they had decided to disband themselves and the cartel 's military structure and were ending all action against those they had previously considered as enemies . |
| 24 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 26 | ‘ And then perhaps , ’ conceded the Superintendent , ‘ there was our own St Manicus , killed , as legend has it , by a madman who thought himself an executioner . ’ |
| 27 | Hercegovina achieved a degree of autonomy under Stevan Vukšić , who gave himself the title Duke ( 'Herceg' ) of St Sava ( 1448 ) in honour of the Serbian royal saint of the thirteenth century . |
| 28 | This , however , will not be tolerated even by those who call themselves the centre , and a major split will become unavoidable . |
| 29 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 30 | The students , who call themselves the EC Unwelcoming Committee shouted : ‘ Its your slump , we wo n't pay . ’ |