Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 2 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 3 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 4 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 5 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 6 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini . |
| 8 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 9 | ‘ For a man who tries to earn a few bucks selling information to the Press , you friend plays 'em close to the chest . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 11 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 12 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |
| 13 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 14 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |