Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FORMER soldier who lives in the Republic is high on the list of suspects drawn up by intelligence analysts hunting an IRA sniping team operating along the border . |
| 2 | ‘ They are only an average valleys side who change in the pub , ’ he chuckles . |
| 3 | Of the 28 per cent of the electorate who voted in the referendum , 53 per cent supported the ban . |
| 4 | In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser . |
| 5 | Croom-Johnson J. plainly thought that he is ; one of the reasons advanced for accepting the contentions of the appellant was that , if the law were otherwise , the ‘ well meaning ’ defendant who went to the aid of the police and accidentally obstructed them would be guilty of an offence . |
| 6 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 7 | Every mother 's son personally knew his friendly local CIA agent who lived round the block . |
| 8 | One was from a retired ship 's captain , now living at Fowey in Cornwall , giving news of his house and garden ; the others were impersonal , acknowledgments of subscriptions to various charities , and some business letters from the estate agent who dealt with the letting of the two other flats . |
| 9 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 10 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 11 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 12 | One journalist who persisted on the point was referred to playfully as ‘ a Chartist or a Luddite ’ by one press officer , who added that there was also the argument that 600 Group should worry about staying in business and not about unemployment . |
| 13 | When the programme was originally devised in the USA the families had a therapy aide who slept in the house and carried out the programme with the child . |
| 14 | ALEXANDER MOGILNY , the Soviet forward who defected during the world championships in Stockholm , is among the Soviet contingent appearing in the NHL , which begins its 1989-90 season today , for the first time in the League 's 73-year history . |
| 15 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 16 | A lawyer who performs under the name ‘ Mary Lou ’ , she agreed to be interviewed about her amateur pornography videos , provided that her real identity remain concealed . |
| 17 | He was a poet who insisted upon the nature and value of a tradition , and yet he had no real predecessors or successors . |
| 18 | De facto , it already has — for even for a Marxist who believes in the possibility of ‘ science ’ there exists the multiplicity of meanings of truth and of error . |
| 19 | J. S. Homes , the National Liberal MP for Harwich , made an early visit , closely followed by the mayor who arranged for the town band to give a concert . |
| 20 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 21 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 22 | Jim Byrne is a physicist who work as the university . |
| 23 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 24 | The crane hooking block 1 : a front punch is blocked by the defender who steps to the side . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir Vivien is the eleventh baronet and is the only surviving son of Sir Tregarron Blacker , the celebrated big-game hunter who died in the sinking of the Titanic , together with his wife , Lady Mabel . |
| 26 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 27 | Few grounds for optimism in these matters could be derived from the analysis of Paul Light who argued in The President 's Agenda that a chief executive 's success in getting his domestic policy agenda accepted would depend on his command of internal and external resources . |
| 28 | There is an old Middle Eastern story about a frog ( in some versions it is a fish ) and a scorpion who meet on the bank of a river that both need to cross . |
| 29 | Do n't you remember Jules Verne 's story about the professor who goes to the moon and accidentally kills off all its inhabitants because when he goes there he 's got a cold and they 're not used to it . ’ |
| 30 | History was taught by a whiskery professor who thundered about the Origin and Destiny of Imperial Britain . |