Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parity expects to sell to end users and have the boxes rebranded by an integrator who sells into the petrochemical industry . |
| 2 | Beauty was a draught horse who belonged to a suburban dairy . |
| 3 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 4 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 5 | On Aug. 26 Edward Lee Howard , a former US Central Investigations Agency ( CIA ) agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 , was refused permission to settle in Sweden on the grounds that he was a security risk . |
| 6 | There was also an infermiere , a male nurse , named Luigi who looked like a retired boxer . |
| 7 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , seen as a front-runner for the chief executive post at IBM Corp , is described by the Wall Street Journal as an exuberantly eccentric Texas hacker and outdoorsman who lives in a converted electrical substation with exposed plumbing , a massive crane hanging from the ceiling , and an elaborate concert hall ’ — sounds just the man for the task of turning IBM around . |
| 8 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 9 | There was a knock at the door ; I opened it and there he was , a tall , slightly stooping figure who spoke with a gentle voice . |
| 10 | Four Quartets offers an image of that " entity " , and the figure who appears in the Dantesque passage is a " familiar compound ghost " in whom Eliot suggested we might recognize Yeats , Mallarmé , Swift and Poe . |
| 11 | In the name of God Almighty , Father , Son and Holy Spirit , we dedicate this museum to the memory of all those of the Eighth Army Air Force who served in the Second War and in our dedication , we pray to Almighty God that there may be no third . |
| 12 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |
| 13 | It covers the situation where the works council demands the dismissal or transfer of an employee who behaves in an illegal or socially harmful way . |
| 14 | If the great aristocracy was responsible for providing large contingents for the war ( and , in England , at least , it was they who , after the king , provided the largest ) the work of raising these soldiers was often done by men of local knowledge and influence who subcontracted with the royal captains to raise the troops required . |
| 15 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 16 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 17 | It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death ! |
| 18 | You must have a co-ordinator who liaises between the different people , takes the overall view , is good at detail and is ultimately the person with whom ‘ the buck stops ’ . |
| 19 | Mr Mark Rees , a transexual who spoke to the annual meeting of Darlington Samaritans . |
| 20 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |
| 21 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 22 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 23 | Crippled … the boy who dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool . |
| 24 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |
| 25 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |
| 26 | A GUNMAN who fled into a public loo after a bungled raid in Ashbourne , Derbys , was arrested when the attendant locked him in . |
| 27 | One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure . |
| 28 | Nearby , grinning like the cat who fell into a vast underground lake of cream , Paterson 's gangly 20-year-old sidekick Thrash — aka Kristian Weston — attempts communication . |
| 29 | There is an even older version of the song , describing the fate of a young lady who died of a broken heart after being jilted by her lover . |
| 30 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |