Example sentences of "who [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |
| 2 | The smoothy who drives around in a cab . |
| 3 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 4 | Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ? |
| 5 | However , the accused who sneaks out of a cinema which he has sneaked in to is not guilty : no service has been " done " . |
| 6 | Each knelt in her partitioned alcove , commending heart and soul to God and praying that Satan , who wandered around like a lion seeking his prey , did not harm their bodies or souls that night . |
| 7 | White , 46 , who helped out at a holiday for the disabled near Farnham , Surrey , fondled the girls — dressed as a bunny and a baby — following the end-of-camp party . |
| 8 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 9 | Soon the door was closed , leaving outside , among the gravestones and round the Cross , a small and growing crowd who lingered on with a sense that the entertainment might not be over . |
| 10 | It was finally Bob Morrow , one of the older racing correspondents on the Daily Telegraph , who came up with a lead . |
| 11 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 12 | A new life for the injured rider who came out of a coma . |
| 13 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 14 | Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes . |
| 15 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 16 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 17 | Pitt , who camped out in a tent roasting hot dogs with Deacon for a week at a time during filming , has since taken the sport of fly fishing to heart . |
| 18 | For her efforts , Riddler wins an exemption from military service for her son , Attila , a delicate type who slopes about in a dressing gown , wringing his hands . |
| 19 | An engaging Irish shaggy-dog story about a failed sixteen-year-old suicide who ends up on a vegetable truck bound for Sweden . |
| 20 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 21 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 22 | Parents who give in to a toddler 's temper will increase the likelihood of tantrums recurring and find themselves becoming more angry . |
| 23 | My partner for the event was the marvellous American player Muffin Spencer-Devlin , who turned up with a bag which had ‘ Save the Whales ’ written all over it . |
| 24 | Ed Behr says , ‘ You had a lot of people who were very young and very inexperienced , who showed up with a couple of cameras and there they were . |
| 25 | There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang . |
| 26 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who walked out of a hospital two weeks ago and has not been seen since . |
| 27 | He shouts especially at Pyjamas , who skulks off for a broom . |
| 28 | Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse . |
| 29 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
| 30 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |