Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [verb] [to-vb] 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 | An open question , such as — " How should we deal with this man who 's come to do a survey for the railway company ? " — can be very intimidating . |
| 17 | Who 's got to take a bus ? |