Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , endears himself to the working scientist who tires of the seemingly endless efforts by historians to dig up some obscure individual who ‘ did it first ’ . |
| 2 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 3 | Hare , the world 's greatest accumulator who retired after the Pilkington Cup Final in April , signed off with a club record total of 438 points last season . |
| 4 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 5 | Gooseneck found out about it through a retired old retainer who lived in the area . |
| 6 | There a resident of another settlement who heard about the incident came by . |
| 7 | Burun nodded to a mounted trooper who galloped after the boy , guarding him like a mother hen with a chick . |
| 8 | It was the youngest child who hacked at the wood . |
| 9 | Erm some lady who works for the council or something . |
| 10 | To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc . |
| 11 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 12 | ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’ |
| 13 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 14 | Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding , riding by , or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm , or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap . |
| 15 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 16 | The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir . |
| 17 | One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure . |
| 18 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 19 | I am a titled lady who danced with the Regent at Carlton House , but remember this . |
| 20 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 21 | That the world is not divided into 2 classes of people — one who run private care for nasty reasons — and another group who work in the statutory service for all the good reasons , and that what we have to do is be prepared to step outside of those kinds of labelling and look at what we are seeing , look at the needs of the people we are trying to help make provision for and see what best can be done out of the resources available . |
| 22 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 23 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 24 | Mr Baird is a chartered accountant who moved into the software business . |
| 25 | The occasion was provided by a funeral for a local tribal king who defected to the ANC in 1980 . |
| 26 | They quoted the old woman who announced outside the Old Bailey that ‘ he got what he deserved ’ . |
| 27 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 28 | ‘ The old woman who lived in the hills , ’ Constance cried in delight . |
| 29 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 30 | ‘ But one morning , the old woman who worked in the house began to talk about Arthur . |