Example sentences of "who [verb] [adv] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 2 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 3 | ‘ Something 's got to give and it 's going to be Nottingham Forest , ’ said Palace striker Paul Williams , who has yet to score for the low-flying Eagles since trading places with Sheffield Wednesday-bound Mark Bright and a £1 million cash adjustment over two months ago . |
| 4 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 5 | Holiday , who has since apologised for the incident , also admitted causing £300 damage to bottles of wine , champagne , glasses , a chair and an electric fan . |
| 6 | In addition to what Nicholas er recounted about my brother , I believe that I am the only minister in the government , possibly the only member of parliament who has ever worked for the Save The Children Fund . |
| 7 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 8 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 9 | South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in . |
| 10 | Henry of Lancaster , Earl Thomas 's brother and heir who had successfully petitioned for the restoration of the earldom of Leicester in 1324 , now sought a reversal of the sentence on his brother and the restoration of his other lands and honours . |
| 11 | Dr Neil , who had just called for the bill , pulled out his watch , and said cheerfully , ‘ Oh , we have already missed it , McAllister . |
| 12 | As I arrived , I met Anouska Hempel 's husband , the brilliant financier Sir Mark Weinberg , and later I had the pleasure of having their beautifully mannered nine-year-old son Jonathan , who had just returned for the summer holidays from Ludgrove , sitting next to me . |
| 13 | Maulvi Farooq was a moderate who had peacefully campaigned for an independent Kashmir , an option opposed by both India and Pakistan . |
| 14 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 15 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 16 | Some MPs who had previously voted for the Exclusion Bill turned Jacobite , amongst them Sir William Whitlock ( a former member of the Green Ribbon Club ) and Edward Harvey ( though in the process they also became High Tories ) . |
| 17 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |
| 18 | Eight Republicans , who had originally voted for the bill because of unemployment problems in their home states , joined all 57 Democrats to oppose the veto , but there were no additional crossovers in spite of the widespread recession . |
| 19 | Allegations were subsequently made against Ibrahim Böhme , the SPD leader , who denied ever working for the Stasi or knowingly passing them information . |
| 20 | He checked his notes , and shook his head , glanced at Cowley again , who remained impassively waiting for the proceedings to be officially closed . |
| 21 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 22 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 23 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 24 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 25 | The Dart Valley Light Railway plc have , therefore , decided on a new policy for the future which it feels will keep faith with the Volunteer Association Members who are keen to develop and maintain the Buckfast-Totnes line as a typical GWR branch line operating as a non-profit making charitable trust and at the same time to satisfy its shareholders who have patiently waited for a dividend for many years . |