Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 2 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 3 | This is another reason why a well-advised employer who offers you an ex gratia payment when your job comes to an end is likely to insist that you are effectively prevented in law from making any further claim against him ( see Chapter 19 ) . |
| 4 | The kitchen salesman who offers you a ridiculously large discount is probably not doing you any favours . |
| 5 | This view of the incorporation of natural science into the school curriculum is taken by David Layton , who offers us a valuable account of this process of ‘ accommodation ’ in the late nineteenth century , complementary to his earlier study of the demise of ‘ the science of common things ’ . |
| 6 | Second successive corner then for Forest and again it 's aimed at Rozario who wins it this time that 's dangerous . |
| 7 | He is a head-on tackler who lines you up in his sights , closes down your space and — whack — you suddenly find yourself enveloped , smothered and smashed all the way back to square one . |
| 8 | We have also introduced a reform which will give people more choice as to who represents them legally in court . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Mary is scarcely a woman whom women today might be expected to find to be a symbol who represents them . |
| 10 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 11 | So I 've got ta say , that in terms of credibility it 's , and the Regional Sec er , the General Secretary made the point about credibility within those sections , and within that , those elections , it 's for the branches to , to actually decide who represents them credibly or not and for this , for any attempt to change rule in this particular way . |
| 12 | What right has anybody , other than the members in that section deciding for themselves who represents them ? |
| 13 | The unwritten and unwritten laws and conventions about who represents us as women in our social , governmental and legal structures , and who has a hand in shaping those structures , amount to a set of understandings about where women 's bodies can actually be , how and where we become visible , and what the attitudes towards that visibility will be . |
| 14 | Who represents us ? |
| 15 | He is the one who represents us before his heavenly Father . |
| 16 | The country is divided into nine regions and in each of these we have someone or in some cases two people , who represents us in the regional Standing Conference of Sport and Recreation , and also on the Movement and Dance Liaison Group or Association . |
| 17 | He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you or wants to do so ( French proverb ) . |
| 18 | An insider said : ‘ He plays such a nasty character his new catchphrase should be ‘ Who hates ya baby ? ’ ’ |
| 19 | Is there anyone around who hates him that much ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who hates me — ’ her voice wobbled dangerously but she quickly brought it back under control ‘ — who believes me to be a traitor , without a single question or … or … ’ |
| 21 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 22 | Fry again urged Flashman , who insists he wo n't sell to any consortium which will employ his former manager , to leave the Third Division club or risk its future . |
| 23 | The thought of wearing the coveted England captain 's armband holds no fears for Platt , who insists he has completely recovered from a knee operation . |
| 24 | Client record cards are not necessarily helpful to a dealer who inherits them , however . |
| 25 | That is , whatever it is that is inherited may cause crime because it alters the way in which the person who inherits it is treated by others . |
| 26 | When an Information memorandum is released the form is passed to Mirian Sedlan who records it as an introduction on the INTRODUCE database and files the papers . |
| 27 | A small girl , acting on instructions from her parents , approaches the old couple 's table and with a shy smile offers one end of a Christmas cracker to the old man , who snatches it from her grasp and stuffs it into his pocket . |
| 28 | Most people would agree that these behaviours from a parent indicate ‘ love ’ for the child who receives them . |
| 29 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 30 | It relates both to ‘ the properties of the utterance itself , and to its ‘ performance , to the person who emits the text and to the person who receives it . ’ |