Example sentences of "[pron] calls [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ . |
| 2 | The head of a new clandestine 250-member opposition group inside Malawi , which calls itself the United Democratic Party , said Mr Chihana 's return yesterday was ‘ suicide and an unnecessary waste of human life ’ . |
| 3 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 4 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 5 | " The state , which calls itself a state of the working people , is humiliating and exploiting the workers , " he said . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the prospect must presumably appal anyone who calls himself a Conservative . |
| 10 | He said the man who calls himself Sal Stallone is not a relative ‘ either close or distant , by marriage or blood ’ . |
| 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 | Towards the end of October 1337 Henry Burghersh Bishop of Lincoln arrived in Paris with a letter from Edward III addressed to ‘ Philip of Valois who calls himself king of France ’ . |
| 14 | The plan meets the garrulous approval of the exiled monarch Wladislas , who calls himself ‘ a middle-class professional man ’ and who is relieved to escape from the rivalry of priests and nobles and the expense of entertaining courtiers of extravagant tastes who ‘ love dressing up in uniforms , putting on swords and attending state balls ’ and whose appetites are such that ‘ a bullock roasted whole and a couple of pigs go no distance at a supper table in Lystria ’ . |
| 15 | He suffers a first conflict of loyalties when he helps the strange man who calls himself Faraway Moses to escape from the Riders and learns that a confederacy is working in secret to reform a government that favours rich against poor , ‘ not with rifle and sword ’ , as the conspirator tells Dick , but : |
| 16 | The Prat Who calls Himself The Hit Man |
| 17 | The ‘ angel ’ in question was an American woman who calls herself Rytasha . |
| 18 | Even the incoherent Rolle had studied at Oxford — and possibly at the Sorbonne — in his unregenerate days and Dame Julian , who calls herself ‘ a poor , uneducated creature ’ , was obviously familiar with scholastic theology and philosophy . |
| 19 | ‘ I have come here ready to prove that he is married , and the woman who calls herself his sister is really his wife , ’ said Holmes . |
| 20 | ‘ Even that whey-faced simpleton who calls herself Queen will understand a message pinned to fitzAlan 's dead body . |
| 21 | They include the 6th Lord Brownlow 's diary of the crisis , draft statements by Wallis Simpson and letters in which she calls herself ‘ Public Character Number One ’ . |
| 22 | She calls herself Elisa these days and she 's married to someone called Stasi . |
| 23 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 24 | She calls herself Jackie and she shares my room . |
| 25 | We are retaining our Medau identity when appearing at prestigious events and thanks to the generosity of one of our Vice-Presidents ( ‘ Medau 's Grandmama ’ as she calls herself ) Peggy Secord , the Team will appear in new Medau Blue outfits at the CCPR Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 . |
| 26 | I said she calls herself Margarite . |
| 27 | Everybody calls himself an undertaker . |
| 28 | It calls itself socialist , but wins seats in rural constituencies which have no time for socialism . |
| 29 | Worcester was the site for the first and last of the Civil War battles and today it calls itself ‘ the Civil War City ’ . |
| 30 | Sometimes when it calls itself political it is so only by semantic innovation , as in the phrase ‘ the personal is political ’ . |