Example sentences of "who [vb base] [adv prt] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt a boiling rage about the Westwards , the family who cut off their own flesh and blood , who let her be raised by the charity of the nuns and never bothered themselves to think that she was now of university age . |
| 2 | Most of the organisations listed area run by volunteer enthusiasts who give up their spare time to painstakingly restore and operate these fascinating survivors from the great age of steam . |
| 3 | They are a group of men and women who give up their own time to do their bit to maintain law and order . |
| 4 | SPRINTERS must also be single-minded fellows who blank out their own family in the minutes before the gun . |
| 5 | You ca n't say that males , females , the old or the young a are those who , who carry on their sexual role in a regular way , or those who do it in an irregular way have a privileged point of view . |
| 6 | Those who start off their married life in shared accommodation or in the local authority sector were more likely to experience marital breakdown later , even if other factors known to be associated with marital breakdown , such as age at marriage and childbearing patterns , are controlled for ; this excess risk for tenants being of the order of 30 per cent greater than for owner-occupiers ( Thornes and Collard , 1979 ; Murphy , 1985 , Table 7 ) . |
| 7 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |