Example sentences of "who [verb] himself [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellant , who described himself as a self-employed accountant , falsely claimed to be an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 2 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |
| 3 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 4 | And a man who described himself as an animal right activist , but insisted that he should n't be idenfied , watched today 's court case closely . |
| 5 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 6 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A FORMER miner who armed himself with a toy gun to protest against pit closures walked free from court yesterday . |
| 12 | FRIENDS of racehorse trainer Will Pearce , who killed himself with a shotgun , have stepped in to save his debt-ridden stables . |
| 13 | Police are hunting a man who exposed himself to a young schoolgirl beneath the viaduct in North Road , Durham City on Thursday afternoon . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Otto Preminger — or Otto the Ogre — was another Viennese-born film director who established himself as a man many loved to hate . |
| 16 | Or how about U.S. lock and Air Force captain Kevin Swords , who established himself as a world-class player and leader at the 1991 World Cup , but is still totally ignored in the U.S. outside the rugby community ? |
| 17 | My anger increased when the meeting Director , Len Smith ( who fancied himself as a pocket-sized version of our trenchant promotions officer Andy Norman ) , said to me , ‘ If you do n't run , you 'll never run again . |
| 18 | The King , who fancied himself as a theologian , greatly admired Andrewes ' learning and style ; sometimes , indeed , he would sleep with one of his sermons under his pillow . |
| 19 | Kevin 's brother , who fancied himself as an amateur psychologist , said you did n't really forget things like that and it meant Lyn must unconsciously want not to wear it — ergo , not to be married . |
| 20 | Hilary was a boy who saw himself as a connoisseur of experience . |
| 21 | It was perhaps typical of du Cann , who saw himself as an archetypal operator , that he should try to do both simultaneously . |
| 22 | And a combination of that early research and the Trent Bridge base aided his biography of Arthur Shrewsbury , Give Me Arthur : ‘ One day the door opened and an elderly man who introduced himself as a relative of Shrewsbury came in . |
| 23 | It was Mr Florio , elected in 1989 , who floated himself as a trial balloon for Clintonomics . |
| 24 | Two of the recipients , Joseph Kagan , a mackintosh manufacturer subsequently convicted of theft , and the property developer Eric Miller , who shot himself during a fraud investigation some eighteen months later , proved the justice of the concern . |
| 25 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |