Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another was a Scots upholsterer who kept on his business because ‘ that was his life ; ’ a third , a retired London stevedore who ‘ had a pub in Rotherhithe . ’ |
| 2 | Here was a back-to-the-wall President who BELIEVED in what he was saying and who shifted opinion overnight with a high-risk tour de force which seems to have swung next week 's referendum . |
| 3 | It was an influence summarized by Herol Graham , himself a redoubtable boxer who wallowed in his reputation as a ‘ Flash Harry ’ , as follows : ‘ There were n't many blacks in my area [ in Nottingham ] and I 'd get called black … . |
| 4 | ‘ Luke Denner , you see , did n't know how to handle this girl who fell into his life out of nowhere , who mixed him up and puzzled him too , because there was something , someone else beneath the surface . |
| 5 | The founder of aromatherapy as we know it was René Gattefossé , a French chemist who worked in his family 's perfumery business in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 7 | Corran Purdon and four corporals , including ‘ Johnny ’ Johnson , a Gordon Highlander of 12 Commando who carried through his task although severely wounded before leaving the destroyer , made for the northern winding-house ( 'A' on diagram ) . |
| 8 | After childhood on Staten Island , New York , Elizabeth Robins lived in Zanesville , Ohio , with her paternal grandmother , a strong-minded woman who features in her semi-autobiographical novel , The Open Question ( 1898 ) . |
| 9 | to the faithful old dog who walked by your side , |
| 10 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |
| 11 | In the middle of the clearing , on a stone , sat an old woman who smiled at her and said hello Manyara . |
| 12 | ‘ My father found another woman who appealed to him more . |
| 13 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 14 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 15 | I well remember the words of an old foreman who said to me , Son , even if you have the talent and ability to take you to the top , there is still no guarantee that you will ever get there , or even half way . |
| 16 | But the central relationship between Teenotchy , a young black stable lad , and the delicate English lord who falls for him , is fresh and complex , and she teases the ironies out of the set-up with understatement and wit . |
| 17 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 18 | A braindamaged man who lives with his mother near the top of the tenement comes in at eleven o'clock , after sweeping out Seventh Street Pizza . |
| 19 | The towering , effortless blow that cleared the St Lawrence lime certainly pleased the Canterbury archivists , and it is a foolish man who bets against him delighting the rest of the world for many years to come . |
| 20 | I knew of another man who dealt in them . |
| 21 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 22 | I bet it 's this lot who come to it . |
| 23 | CHAMP , the faithful terrier who pined for his dead master , has been put to sleep by a vet . |
| 24 | He was a shy , lonely man who married the nearest thing to hand , which happened to be Nancy , the entertaining redhead who looked after his fingernails in the barber 's shop at the Dorchester . |
| 25 | I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop . |
| 26 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 27 | Well , the secret of her success is one Josh Salzmann , a personal trainer who numbers among his clients John Cleese , Michael Winner and even David Frost . |
| 28 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 29 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is in the dark girl who looks like your dead wife . |