Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] who [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , endears himself to the working scientist who tires of the seemingly endless efforts by historians to dig up some obscure individual who ‘ did it first ’ . |
| 2 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 3 | In desperate need of love vibes , the audience descended like a pack of ravenous wolves on St Etienne , not least because this duo of Thunderbird puppets in polo necks are now fronted solely by Stephanie , a dead ringer for the teenage Bardot who gambols about the stage in such a display of unrestrained delight , that you think ‘ this is the real thing ’ . |
| 4 | For 16 months , like a prince in medieval England who succeeds to the throne before he comes of age , he was tied to a particular past and regime , hedged by his predecessor 's courtiers and advisers , living through his minority and aching to make his own mark . |
| 5 | To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc . |
| 6 | ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’ |
| 7 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 8 | Of course , it is next-door-neighbour Dorien who comes to the rescue , inviting the girls to stay with her . |
| 9 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 10 | This mechanically manic installation-cum-excursion is the work of Steve Barry , a New York trained artist who teaches at the University of New Mexico . |
| 11 | At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring . |
| 12 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 13 | For a long time Cindy 's only competition was a sad show called Style With Elsa Klensch , a yapping Aussie who looks like the missing link between Morticia and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family . |
| 14 | Many of the young feel alienated from old PLO hands , such as Haider Abdul Shafi , the prominent Gazan doctor who negotiates for the Palestinians in far-away Washington . |
| 15 | ‘ Every pupil at Kidminster Green is cared for by a personal tutor who remains with the tutor group throughout the pupil 's school career . |
| 16 | The individual worker who specializes in the elderly is a social work assistant , who carries a caseload of approximately sixty . |
| 17 | One for the master one for the dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane . |
| 18 | Baa , baa , black sheep , have you any wool , yes sir , yes sir , three bags full , one for the master and one for the dame , one for the little boy who lives down the lane . |
| 19 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 20 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |
| 21 | A ‘ desperate ’ candidate stands much less chance than a more relaxed candidate who goes into the interview knowing that she/he has other options . |
| 22 | There is no twentieth-century master who belongs to the second half of this century . |
| 23 | " [ A ] man of the humble class who falls into the hands of law " , he wrote , " is more afraid of the process of law itself than of any punishment . |
| 24 | One leading businessman who sits on the NatWest board is in no doubt he will succeed : ‘ My experience of bankers is they are a crusty bunch . |
| 25 | He 's got a friend — this black man who comes to the house sometimes . |
| 26 | I 'm looking at the framed portraits of the stars : Anna Neagle , Liz Taylor , Dirk Bogarde , hand coloured like the photographs that Mr Fuller tints , an elderly artist who lives across the road from my grandparents . |
| 27 | He says they have an othapedic surgeon who comes to the practice once a months , so she could be treated within eight weeks . |
| 28 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 29 | He felt like the man in an old music-hall joke who hammers on the dentist 's door with a wet sponge , the need to get in conflicting powerfully with the longing to flee . |
| 30 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |