Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time .
2 He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast .
3 The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion .
4 HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years .
5 The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind .
6 Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love .
7 People who are paying seventy eighty pound a month mortgage who 've had them for years and then
8 I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused .
9 To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy .
10 He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love .
11 It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years .
12 Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ?
13 The grandmother who had held him for a family photograph ; the mother Eda , the father Meir , the brothers Chaim , Avram , Aizik and Josef ; the sisters Selma and Esther .
14 We have a German sister company who have asked us for advice on costs for duplication of videos in this country , the costs being prohibitive in Germany .
15 His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ?
16 However , the reader who has to look herself for these useful references will find much else to inform and entertain .
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