Example sentences of "who [verb] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
| 2 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |
| 3 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 4 | A back pass from player-manager Hoddle seemed to catch Hammond by surprise and the goalkeeper hit the ball straight to the feet of Posh 's Tony Adcock , who put it into an empty net . |
| 5 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 6 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 7 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 8 | His exceptional talent was eventually recognized by the editor , E. V. Knox [ q.v. ] , who placed him under an exclusive contract , an almost unprecedented arrangement . |
| 9 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 10 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 11 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 12 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 13 | But such systems can only be as good as those who use them in an original research context , and I have a genuine concern that an over-abundance of records will lead to confusion , or to the adoption of narrow and blinkered research strategies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 16 | Asylum procedures exist to ensure the protection of those genuinely at risk , but they are in danger of being undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration . |
| 17 | This autonomy is jealously defended by neighbourhood policemen in Easton , who see it as an essential part of their job , as one was ruefully reminded after being transferred to the Traffic Branch . |