Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bogart was the quintessential Seventies entrepreneur who ploughed through an alpine landscape of cocaine , finally towing his company , Casablanca Records , over the financial brink and leaving the entire disco industry and , in particular , Casablanca 's owners PolyGram , tottering on the edge . |
| 2 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 3 | News now of the unveiling of a fine memorial commemorating the 30 men of 30 Squadron and 20 men of 33 Squadron who died in the defence of Maleme airfield , Crete , in May 1941 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Except for one girl who ran towards the rock where Angus was leaning , not just on the rock but also on a sealskin . |
| 6 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 7 | Just the one nutter who listens to the fridge and can heave his plastic in our direction — ’ |
| 8 | It is the fact that there is only one Commissioner who operates in a narrow area of disputes that is difficult to condone . |
| 9 | They had one daughter who died at the age of six ; the mother died shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 11 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 12 | One headmistress who came to a workshop put this exercise to good use . |
| 13 | One detective who works in the area said : ‘ We are working very long hours tracking these people but when we bring them in , legal impediment after legal impediment is thrown up in our faces . |
| 14 | ‘ We had one customer who looked at the book , which has in it some really nasty colour pictures of legs and arms half eaten by sharks , ’ said Ainslie Thin . ’ |
| 15 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |