Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.

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1 I 'm still not sure whether anyone lives on Monte Cristo , but there was an eccentric Englishman who proclaimed himself the Count .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 That was attended by a group who called themselves the Militia of Christian Youth — Catholic ultras .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings .
10 The revolt against the Mr Bush 's presidency a ran all to Mr Clinton 's benefit and not much to that of Mr Perot , the acid-tongued Texas billionaire who styled himself the unorthodox candidate of protest .
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