Example sentences of "who [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald Trump left Ivana , a Czech , for Georgia peach Marla Maples and now plans to sue his former wife , who agreed to a gagging order over their marriage as part of her $10m divorce settlement . |
| 2 | The two provincial solicitors were the only two who agreed to the research following a random mailing of solicitors in the town . |
| 3 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 4 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 5 | Paying passengers who clung to the railings of the MS Waldstatten as the explosive charges were detonated felt scarcely a ripple as debris dropped into the water . |
| 6 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 7 | Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ . |
| 8 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 9 | They are unfortunately exceeded in number by the famous names of the past who clung to what they knew best without being prepared to adapt or change , and slowly but inexorably saw their business disappearing beneath them . |
| 10 | On the one hand , then , there would have been the so-called ‘ Herodian Sadducees ’ , who clung to their Temple privileges and prerogatives under Herod 's reign and , after his death , accommodated themselves to the Roman administration . |
| 11 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 12 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father 's death . |
| 14 | Consider also Hawthorn 's assessment of Ginsberg , who succeeded to Hobhouse 's Chair : |
| 15 | The Chinese kept the situation under control , and Zhang Xueliang , who succeeded to his father 's position , harboured considerable resentment at those who had caused his father 's death . |
| 16 | Shortly before he retired Foulston took into partnership the architect George Wightwick [ q.v. ] , who succeeded to his practice . |
| 17 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 18 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 19 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 20 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 21 | They are not a noticeably intellectual lot , the Greens , and anyone who goes to one of their conferences expecting deeply researched papers on the carbon tax issue or the structure of the future Green confederation of Europe will come away disappointed . |
| 22 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 23 | While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend . |
| 24 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 25 | Who goes to orchestral concerts , who goes to opera , to ballet , to the cinema ? |
| 26 | Who goes to orchestral concerts , who goes to opera , to ballet , to the cinema ? |
| 27 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 28 | Already , and much publicised , we have the Tanzanian alternative whereby cumulative records of performance and teachers ' reports have been used alongside examination marks to determine who goes to secondary school . |
| 29 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 30 | His next pic Blue Movie Blue stars Nina Siemaszdo as a distressed 17-year-old who goes to work in a high class brothel after her junkie father dies . |