Example sentences of "who [vb -s] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 2 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 3 | Is there anyone around who hates him that much ? ’ |
| 4 | Fry again urged Flashman , who insists he wo n't sell to any consortium which will employ his former manager , to leave the Third Division club or risk its future . |
| 5 | The thought of wearing the coveted England captain 's armband holds no fears for Platt , who insists he has completely recovered from a knee operation . |
| 6 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 7 | GREENE 'S '50s novel of a naively evil American agent in Indo-China and the cynical English hack who befriends him has been timely ever since it was published . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Meaulnes has seen and fallen in love with a beautiful woman , who grants him permission to return one day . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , Inspector , Dave Wheatley caddies for Bjorn Carlssen , who guarantees him twenty thousand a year , and he earns at least double that . |
| 10 | Michael Crawford , who plays him , has the limp stance , the slack jaw , the boiled-eye stare off to perfection . |
| 11 | The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson . |
| 12 | Heroes : Augusto Odone , who refused to accept there was no cure for his son , and Nick Nolte , who plays him in the film Screen drama : Michaela Odone , played by Susan Sarandon , nurses her son Lorenzo , Zack O'Malley Greenburgh , in a moving scene from Lorenzo 's Oil Prof John Sargent : helped pioneer treatment |
| 13 | ‘ The Late Show is too difficult for the audience we hope to reach , ’ says the new programme 's producer , Lindsay Shapero , who thinks he can attract an audience of at least one million . |
| 14 | To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer ? |
| 15 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 16 | At first he was like a man who thinks he smells gas or a fire , his body alert and his head held high as he looked quickly round the carriage . |
| 17 | Secular humanism says that anyone who thinks he can be anything but selfish is deceiving himself . |
| 18 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 19 | In Mo' Money , a young street hustler , Johnny , who thinks he needs to be richer to win the love and respect of the beautiful Amber ( Stacy Dash ) , takes a job in the company where she works and soon becomes embroiled in a dangerous credit card scam . |
| 20 | We 've made too many allowances for another top player who thinks he 's bigger than the game . |
| 21 | A MAN who thinks he 's a baked bean got a passport yesterday showing that he IS . |
| 22 | That politico , Gorbachev , is an amateur , a provincial hick who thinks he 's made it big . |
| 23 | The sequence begins when Cassio , brought to Desdemona by Emilia ( the unwitting intermediary of evil ) , leaves in some embarrassment when he sees Othello and Iago approach : Iago moves from an upper plane ( Signifier ) to a lower ( Signified ) , from perception to interpretation : subtly doubting the former — Was that Cassio leaving your wife ? — so that Othello , who thinks he can trust his own eyes , takes the latter — so guiltily — with it , accepting a — false ! — linguistic sign . |
| 24 | Who 's the complete pillock who thinks he can send commercial programs and pretend they 're his own ? |
| 25 | Without a reinforcing reputation he might simply be classed as a ‘ Bullshitter ’ — the boy who thinks he 's hard but is n't and rejected accordingly . |
| 26 | To a fourteen-year-old boy who thinks he saw an envelope in a box once , and an idiot who ca n't even say what he saw ? ’ |
| 27 | He wants a quick sale , and there 's a friend of his who thinks he might like it for a weekend cottage . |
| 28 | A merchant who likes riddles is murdered by his servant , who later hangs himself ; a small , fat , morose man who thinks he is a Hector with the ladies and , when he realises he is not , goes out and hangs himself . |
| 29 | You 'd simply be committing suicide : you 're either a killer or some fruitcake who thinks he 's a killer and neither wanted in today 's modern Army thank you . ’ |
| 30 | Himmler is a nonentity who thinks he should be Fuhrer in Hitler 's place and Himmler 's deputy is Reinhard Heydrich who is brilliant and daring and handsome and will kill Himmler first and then the Fuhrer , if they do n't pre-empt him . |