Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before .
2 Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island .
3 That explanation distinguishes integrity from the perverse consistency of someone who refuses to rescue some prisoners because he can not save all .
4 Only a professor at the Collège de France could imagine that anyone ( let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior ) was capable of any such omniscience .
5 I was surprised to find that Mr Summerfield had known the first Station Master of Bishop 's Castle , Elisha Edwin Owen — it was a thrill to speak to someone who had received first-hand memories of the start of the Railway .
6 It was a good age for someone who had seen untimely deaths on all sides of her family .
7 A not untypical background of an early headhunter was someone who had had general management experience and had worked in one or more functional roles , and then found themselves , for the best of reasons , on the market .
8 It is rather odd for someone who tends to denigrate official footpaths to be promoting a link between the Pennine and West Highland Ways .
9 ‘ Joe Gargery , I am sent by someone who suggests cancelling this boy 's apprenticeship to you .
10 He is hardly someone who has made friendly remarks about the coal industry of late .
11 This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day .
12 As someone who has suffered several heart attacks , I eat polyunsaturates , although I prefer butter , but I can not convince myself that it really matters .
13 I would still find it very hard to believe that any evidence of mitigation would justify a non-custodial sentence , to someone who has broken twenty-three bones in their child 's body .
14 Thus someone of mature judgement and sophisticated taste has to be taught and examined in literature alongside someone who has chosen that subject because it is thought to be relatively easy , has no aptitude for it nor any possible interest except in getting through the examination .
15 Someone who wishes to obtain some food in return for some clothes , not only has to find someone who has some food , but who is also seeking some clothes .
16 And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market .
17 Somebody who has spent 40 years of his life working for the Scottish Transport Group would receive two thirds of his pensionable salary on retirement .
18 What are you going to then for somebody who 's got thirty pounds to spend ?
19 We 'll come back to you if we ca n't find somebody who 's got more time I guess .
20 The foresters of fee were to be summoned to appear before the king to show by what warrant they held their bailiwicks : likewise everyone who had assumed any liberty in the forest since 1217 , to produce his authority .
21 This is far too broad a question for us to seek to answer on our own , even if we wished to , affecting as it does everyone who hopes to enter higher education , their parents and their future employers ; but it is imperative that the debate should be joined .
22 She could do without a powerful , handsome French stepbrother , especially one who had used private detectives to find her .
23 She was the one who had initiated this skirmish .
24 Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) .
25 As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad .
26 As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad .
27 I was the awkward one who kept asking difficult questions , such as , Why is n't Leo in the Forces ? and What war work do Helen and Dora do ?
28 One who appears to find more comfort in the Feathers than the church . ’
29 No one who aims to study real life can possibly ignore these factors .
30 Yes that 's the one , the one who 's got three stone that one
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