Example sentences of "[pron] who [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warming compliment , from someone who knew about the theatre . |
| 2 | Which did seem to point to someone who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper . |
| 3 | However , as someone who identified with the student movements of the late 1960s , he was saddened to discover that present economic conditions meant ‘ normal ’ younger students were less willing , or able , to stand up for ‘ issues ’ . |
| 4 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 5 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 6 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 7 | This term was introduced to describe someone who indulged in the science of ‘ aerostation ’ ( lighter-than-air flight ) using an ‘ aerostatic ’ machine ( balloon ) . |
| 8 | Erm a few months back I was interviewing someone who lived in the area all their life and she said that the Sikh temple had distributed some E E C erm butter I think it was . |
| 9 | I think maybe there was someone who died in the war or something . |
| 10 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 11 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
| 12 | A new face is a new focus of interest , whether it 's someone the client already knows or someone who comes to the Home on a Friday to do movement or dance , drama , music therapy or a slide show . |
| 13 | The picture tries to portray Charles ‘ as he is at the moment — someone who cares about the world around him , somebody who has become a very caring person . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details . |
| 15 | In the rural areas , every village had someone who acted as the Party boss and who , in collaboration with the Civil Guard , kept the local populace under observation . |
| 16 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 17 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 18 | Look what happened to that Indian chap of yours who wrote about the Koran . ’ |
| 19 | Eventually it was the Reverend Randolph Burdon himself who came to the door , looking a little surprised , as if he had expected somebody else . |
| 20 | An anxious young face disappeared from the window as their car drew up and parked under the dripping trees , but it was the Brigadier himself who appeared at the door to meet them . |
| 21 | Indeed , it was Beveridge himself who claimed in the midst of the war that ‘ the most general effect of war is to make he common people more important ’ . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most astonishing fact to emerge was that nobody who lived round the plant , not even farmer Clive Knox , could claim compensation for any accident from their own insurance company . |
| 23 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 24 | She 's somebody who comes to the door and tries to sell you some make-up and perfume and toys and things . |
| 25 | Then I arranged a wake and everyone who came to the wake contributed . |
| 26 | Everyone who came near the church would see it and realize how wicked he had been . |
| 27 | Everyone who lived in the house was there , and so were a number of other friends and neighbours of Doris 's . |
| 28 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 29 | It is important for us all to remember that everyone who shared in the meeting did so out of good conscience and with a genuine desire to find God 's will for us . |
| 30 | It may require a campaign to get your message across to everyone who matters in the organization . |