Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |
| 2 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 3 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 4 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 5 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 6 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 7 | Yet these are the same people who are our neighbours , our friends and those who sit beside us in the cinema or at a football ground . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 9 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 10 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 11 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 12 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 13 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 14 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 15 | I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth , to home life , to country and to religion . |
| 16 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |
| 17 | The populations of two towns A and B and the number of persons who die in them in a certain year are given in the table below . |
| 18 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 19 | Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies , who look upon it as a social club . |
| 20 | Callières urged that young Frenchmen , if they could not meet the cost themselves , should be able to see other countries as members of the entourages of French ambassadors or envoys " according to the practice of the Spaniards and Italians who look upon it as an honour for them to accompany the ministers of their master in these sorts of voyages " . |
| 21 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 22 | Ten years ago , a computer was a large , static and very expensive piece of machinery , operated by an expert elite who communicated with it in a language which only they understood . |
| 23 | A void title on the other hand is no title at all and an innocent purchaser who buys from someone with a void title can derive no benefit from section 23 ( although , of course , he might acquire good title by virtue of some other exception to the ‘ nemo dat ’ principle ) . |
| 24 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 25 | ( He was clearly influenced by Andrea Gabrieli and influenced him in turn , as he did Giovanni who served under him in the Munich choir from c. 1575 to 1579 . ) |
| 26 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 27 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 28 | Next season they will replace Wigan , who finished below them in the four club ballot held during the league 's annual meeting at Preston . |
| 29 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 30 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |