Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the response from readers who wrote to me with their amazing success stories , that it was decided I should write an extended version of the book and the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet was published last January . |
| 2 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 3 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 4 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 5 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 6 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 7 | It avoids one of the most familiar classroom situations in the primary school — the child who comes to you for a word which is already written down higher up the page . |
| 8 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 9 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 10 | A vigorous critique of utilitarianism has been offered by Bernard Williams who refers to it as ‘ distinctive way of looking at human action and morality . ’ |
| 11 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 12 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 13 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 14 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 15 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 16 | Perhaps today the general public take too much for granted , the , as a local Councillor I have to interview many people who come to me with housing problems , to be as patient as one can is essential as a politician , but after the complainant has gone , one is very conscious of the fact that their problem is so minute it is hardly worth mentioning . |
| 17 | I betrayed your trust and I betray sick , helpless people who come to me for help , because I love you . ’ ‘ |
| 18 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 19 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 20 | You can work in private practice where the clients are people who come to you for help ; or you can work for central or local government , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , or a commercial or industrial organisation , where the employer is your ‘ client ’ . |
| 21 | You may be as miserable as the people who write to me about losing their jobs . |
| 22 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 23 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 24 | So all these people who lecture to us about democracy should really examine the situation it 's got nothing to do with democracy whatsoever when less people are entitled to have a say . |
| 25 | So I have people who report to me like Kevin my despatch manager . |
| 26 | The tall man who spoke to her through the barely opened driver 's window was casually dressed in a well-cut tweed sports jacket and green drill trousers . |
| 27 | ‘ Or do you , perhaps , get your pleasure at a distance , by putting your sexuality on display and then treating a man who reacts to it as if he were a leper ? ’ |
| 28 | Hence national levels of support for what is essentially a late-secondary or post-secondary programme , the local organization which supports it and the commitment of teachers who contribute to it at more than one level — all these matter . |
| 29 | At teatime Anne was seated next to Sarah 's grandmother who talked to her about her family at first then said , ‘ It 's good news about John 's job , is n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |