Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb -s] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 2 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 3 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 5 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |
| 6 | Hi , I have n't advertised myself but I 'm aware of friends who have and the biggest problem seems to be that when they respond to the ads and then they meet the gentleman in question who 's described themselves as six feet two who 's blonde and extremely handsome |
| 7 | The stories about Strahinja tell of a classic conflict between love and duty when the hero 's wife falls in love with the Turk who has abducted her from the family home whilst her husband is away in Kruševac visiting his wife 's relatives , the powerful Jugovići family . |
| 8 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 9 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 10 | Woods plays an explosive but repressed Manhattan cop , with Fox as a Hollywood matinée idol who decides to shadow him by way of research for a tougher kind of cinematic role . |
| 11 | L = teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit . |
| 12 | I have n't met the type of Magistrate who enjoys sending anybody to prison . |
| 13 | cheques payable to a person who wishes to pass it through another person 's bank account , e.g. if they have no bank account of their own ; |
| 14 | I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused . |
| 15 | Even Dorothea Shottery had the comfort of a home and money left by her husband , even Dorothea who has contributed nothing to life , has a married name and her freedom . |
| 16 | This may be because their communicative impairments limit their scope for participation and places a heavy burden on any adult who seeks to engage them in routine activities . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're hardly a teenager who has to explain herself to her mother . ’ |
| 18 | It is the stars showing special characteristics which are of particular interest to the observer who has equipped himself with binoculars or a telescope . |
| 19 | There in Ephesians one three Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ . |
| 20 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 21 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 22 | Try coping with a party of underprivileged schoolchildren from a housing estate in Manchester with a near-hysterical social worker , a ghetto blaster and some crisp bags to sniff glue , two glum shaven-headed squaddies with flatulence , and a computer programmer from Maidstone who wants to tell you about why his promotion fell through , and then with one eye twitching , accuses you of having stolen his processed cheese . |
| 23 | He wo n't do it without help from his manager , a man who likes to present himself as a disciplinarian but who appears powerless to prevent his players misbehaving on the field . |
| 24 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 25 | I shall carry on using the term regardless , and any hairy man who wants to challenge me about it is welcome to a wrestle . |
| 26 | At least it 's worth a celebration cigar and not just for Arthur Daley , Britain 's beat known comedy Crook , but for the man who 's played him in the Minder series George Cole , although he reckons Arthur would be knocking out replicas already . |
| 27 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 28 | The impressive manor he occupies is n't actually his : it belongs to a minor local aristocrat who 's let it to him , presumably under a long lease . |
| 29 | You know , the kid who 's played it to his best friend who tells him it 's great . ’ |
| 30 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |