Example sentences of "who have [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 2 | Phone calls for Head who has gone to visit a school where one of our pupils now attends full time . |
| 3 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 4 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |
| 5 | Indeed , for the individual who has arrived to keep a rendezvous with the pictures alone , there is the feeling of being conspicuously different , especially if you lose your social poise and start glaring fiercely at works which are almost always above someone 's head . |
| 6 | Roger Poole , and other leaders of the overtime ban , have vowed to do whatever they can to force a face-to-face confrontation with Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , who has refused to countenance a meeting . |
| 7 | In other instances the biographer may have been commissioned by the family of a person who has died to write a biography with their authorization and co-operation . |
| 8 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 9 | He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment . |
| 10 | Anyone who has tried to swat a fly will know that its reactions are almost instantaneous . |
| 11 | ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground . |
| 12 | Second marriages were therefore common , as anyone who has tried to construct a family tree for this period will know . |
| 13 | Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be . |
| 14 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 15 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 16 | Brückner 's investigators had found a jeweller who 'd refused to buy a cross that fitted the description of the Holy Relic . |
| 17 | The defendants who had contracted to refurbish a block of flats sub-contracted the carpentry work to the plaintiff for a price of £20,000 to be paid in instalments related to the work completed . |
| 18 | The arrival of Mosley would mean a British controlling interest at the top , much to the astonishment of the French and the Italians , the selfstyled ‘ Mediterranean mafia ’ who had hoped to retain a balance of power . |
| 19 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 20 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 21 | The blow was almost as great for John , who had begun to enjoy a family background after years of being on his own or part of a split family . |
| 22 | He had plenty of tales of what had happened to others , though ; the most gruesome being a double-headed story about an American tourist who had refused to pay a taxi driver 's extortionate rates . |
| 23 | The 15-year-old , who had admitted damaging a classroom at Whinfield School , Darlington , by fire at a previous hearing , was given a 12-month supervision order with £25 costs . |
| 24 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 25 | In one such session two students who had tried teaching a lesson in tandem , set out their objectives and procedures and tried to evaluate their success in the lesson . |
| 26 | In fact she was following her husband 's wishes that those who had helped create a fortune should now inherit it . |
| 27 | There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial . |
| 28 | ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended . |
| 29 | The new proposals contained a revised list of the territories the Gruagach were prepared to cede to Reflection in exchange for her daughter but Caspar , who had managed to get a look at these , had told Floy that the Gruagach were only ceding some barren bits of wasteland surrounding the Robemaker 's workshops , the Lake of Dhairbhreach — which nobody in their right minds would want — and a mountain or two . |
| 30 | Jean Ping , Minister of Mines , Petroleum , Energy and Water Resources , who had failed to win a seat in elections in September 1990 , was another prominent figure to leave the government , his post going to his former deputy , Hervo Akendengue . |