Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 2 | Dexter remembered that cackle and so the journalist who owned it : John Barry , who had helped report Blanche 's last murder case for the Herald . |
| 3 | But he points out that if satyāgraha is used in an unjust cause then only the person who uses it suffers . |
| 4 | ‘ But Sir Thomas — I suppose only the person who served them could be sure . ’ |
| 5 | Now the others she 's referring to there must be God , but she can not immediately go on and so bluntly say , in the very next line anyway , you know , it was only the serpent who showed it to me , God is going to be envious of me . |
| 6 | Well , only the chap who rogered you regularly in the sixties . ’ |
| 7 | Thus the doctor who tells me to take a drug , if I wish to recover from a sickness , is expressing a hypothetical imperative . |
| 8 | ‘ Not exactly the Spaniard who blighted my life , but he looked like he 'd blighted a good few others . ’ |
| 9 | So if a cheque sent through the post is cashed by the wrong person , it is the bank that accepted the cheque , not the person who wrote it , which will have to pay . |
| 10 | However , it is still the inspector who decides what is an ‘ acceptable argument ’ and what is not . |
| 11 | But as time progressed , and as she became ‘ official ’ as a member of the KGB , it was always the babushka who averted her gaze and looked away . |
| 12 | Initially , this DC user is also the user who created it , until another person is specifically allocated ( using option 2.5.0 ) . |
| 13 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 14 | Now the motorist who hit him , 20 year old Gavin Soutar from Park North , has successfully appealed against his sentence for driving without due care and attention . |
| 15 | Now the headmaster who brought them here wants to return to the war zone to bring out more refugees . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't really the gang who phoned you . ’ |
| 17 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 18 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |
| 19 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 20 | If the product was made in the United States and brought to France before being brought to England , then the person who imported it into France is liable . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly the demon who dogs our footsteps has agents in Paris . ’ |
| 22 | Churlish indeed the man who wishes his neighbour a Merry Christmas but does not give him tangible proof of this to put on his mantlepiece . |
| 23 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 24 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |