Example sentences of "[noun] who [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them . |
| 2 | Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity . |
| 3 | How many in the class have a parent who normally travels to work by car , bus or train to another town , or several kilometres across a city ? |
| 4 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 5 | He talked to Modigliani , for example , of Bergson , the Jewish philosopher who nearly converted to Catholicism at the end of his life ; and through Bergson , of the concept of conscience and the relationship between morality and religion . |
| 6 | Shakespeare provides a particular problem for radical critics who ideologically object to eminence . |
| 7 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 8 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 9 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 10 | On the following day , Elinor 's door was thrown open by a nurse who then stood to attention as , smiling benignly , Matron Ivy Braddock appeared in the doorway . |
| 11 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
| 12 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |