Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the Ombudsman 's vigorous and admirably speedy deliberations , the hapless 18,000 investors who put their faith in the DTI imprimatur will be fully compensated and the integrity of the UK 's investment apparatus has been preserved . |
| 2 | The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate . |
| 3 | Old Man with a Child has a little girl facing a seated old man who holds her hands , and in Old Man Holding an Infant the tiny baby is being cradled by a bald old man with bushy white side-whiskers . |
| 4 | I had become far too used to hearing not conspicuously brilliant boys called Socrates and Aristotle , and to addressing the ill-favoured old woman who did my room out as Aphrodite , to smile . |
| 5 | IN THEIR respective obituary and report ( 29 September ) , Andrew Horvat and James Fenton produced a picture of the late President Marcos which was too simply one of a celebrated political monster who got his come-uppance , writes James Hamilton-Paterson . |
| 6 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 7 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 8 | Down below , in the third class , James Flanagan , a Primitive Methodist minister who began his working life at seven and taught himself to read at twenty-one , preached and ‘ frequently pleaded with the God of earth and sea ’ for a safe journey . |
| 9 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 10 | Here we have a gang of unemployed white boys who imagine themselves to be some kind of local ruling class , and who feel outraged that this omnipotent position is being usurped by groups of black youth who are even more disadvantaged than they are . |
| 11 | Two dogs came in to share her solitude , absurd , dignified little Pekinese who regarded her gravely with their blue-brown eyes like marbles and then lay before the fire and ignored her . |
| 12 | ‘ The old one-legged man who brought us all here for nothing ; and that boy who I 'm going to have the heart of ! ’ |
| 13 | The French pharmaceutical firm who market it called it RU 486 , its project number . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to stay on top and win the order of merit as well , ’ said Lane , a former Scottish Open champion who has his wife , Melanie , to thank for spotting the reason behind his recent poor putting . |
| 15 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 16 | He looks like a rather reliable young man who remembers his aunts ' birthdays , with his thick roll-neck sweaters and his glowing complexion and mild blue eyes . |
| 17 | There are indications that the James-type account is the more popular among those few contemporary British philosophers who have anything to say on the subject . |
| 18 | ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that . |
| 19 | The Repeater Hand Gun is also used from horseback by gallant Imperial Engineers who find it a devastating if temperamental device . |
| 20 | The rhetoric of contemporary Fascism rang on tile and steel and iron-framed glass , the electronic shrillness of the microphone amplifying the sardonic zeal of the burly scar-faced orator who held it in his grip . |
| 21 | In a desperate attempt to concentrate , and ignore David who had followed her , she turned her attention to the burly shop-floor worker who awaited her . |
| 22 | Out on the teeming Paris street , she is accosted by a couple of zealous American tourists who beg her for autographs . |
| 23 | Sunny Von Bulow ‘ was ’ a spoilt , super-rich American socialite who had it all . |
| 24 | And having accepted it , let us admit that the book that gives this experience to the individual young reader who needs it or will benefit from it , may not be what we ( outside the experience ) might recognize as a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 25 | He had feared that Hope might turn out to be one of those weary and self-righteous young men who thought it witty to mock the great old institutions . |
| 26 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 27 | The corporation is like a vast pregenital mother who gives her brood security and nourishment , but who loves the eldest and the strongest ( the top executives ) best , since she gives them the most . |
| 28 | Some pimps claim they have seen girls with Muslim holy leaders who require their services . |
| 29 | Of note this time round are cosmic headhunters Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band and Praise Space Electric , the twisted 14th Wray who invite you to a ‘ Yuppie Deadhead Party ’ and the mutilated shriek of Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika which is bad drug craziness at its frothing , wild-eyed best . |
| 30 | The military historian , James Lucas , who served in Tunisia as Keyes 's runner , remembered him as ‘ a gallant Christian gentleman who sacrificed himself for the men under his command ’ . |