Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 2 | No-one stopped him , which is surprising given that he 's not the sort who fits into a group of golfers , never mind a crowd . |
| 3 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 4 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 5 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 6 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 7 | They think , for example , the feller who sleeps with a lot of women , he says oh I love women ! |
| 8 | A more important new tendency appeared in another Roman opera ( 1626 ) , La catena d'Adone by Domenico Mazzocchi ( 1592–1665 ) , who remarks in a note to the published score that he has inserted a number of ‘ mezz'Arie ’ which ‘ break the tedium of the recitative ’ ( che rompono il tedio del recitativo ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The child who lives in a clearing in the jungle has to move out of the clearing and into the jungle one day , ’ she says . |
| 10 | I have been criticised for being a distant figure who lives in a style of luxury that Britain can not afford . |
| 11 | Mr Gould told the Labour Party Conference : ‘ We have a Prime Minister who lives in a sort of Walter Mitty land . |
| 12 | As the residents bring out their used syringes and collect new ones , a neighbour of sorts , a working-class black man who lives in an apartment across the street , brings a bundle of used clothing on to the wasteland . |
| 13 | Singer SHEENA EASTON , 33 , who thanks to a series of shrewd property deals in California is 36th richest with £39.4 million . |
| 14 | At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you 're horrid to tell me lies too , and make out that when you 're married you 're going to get up to horrible … such disgusting … with that man who looks like a fish with cold yellowish eyes and greeny-yellow skin … . ’ |
| 16 | The sprites are amazing , especially ol' Rufus himself , who looks like a cross between Berk from Trapdoor and Phil after a large meal . |
| 17 | Such a gritty attitude is typical of the veteran Redruth prop , who looks after a flock of 530 sheep and a small herd of beef cattle on his holding close to Padstow on Cornwall 's windswept Atlantic coast . |
| 18 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
| 19 | We step past Calvin who doodles with a twig in the dust , and make our way towards the car . |
| 20 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 21 | Daryl , 32 , who is dating John F Kennedy Jnr after splitting with Jackson Browne , will play Nancy Archer who grows into a giant after coming into contact with aliens . |
| 22 | A particularly ugly BROWNIE or sprite from Scotland who acts as a guardian for a mill . |
| 23 | In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target . |
| 24 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 25 | Normally such a document evidences only a contract between the shipper and the freight forwarder , who acts as a broker for air cargo space or as an independent commission agent . |
| 26 | More significantly , totality is defined in terms of its absence for modern man who exists in a relation of alienation from the world . |
| 27 | There is no doubting the substantial culpability of the person who embarks on a course of conduct knowing that there is a risk of death to another ( e.g. the man who administered chloroform in Pike ) , and the person who foresees the risk of really serious harm to another from the course of conduct being pursued . |
| 28 | Since then Dr Clarke , who travels with a pair of burly minders , has avoided doorstep campaigning preferring to communicate via BNP leaflets and press releases issued in his name . |
| 29 | Mr Appleyard , who travels with a convoy to Poland later this month , thanked two fruiterers Hardy 's of Middlesbrough and Mason 's of Stockton for giving apples , oranges and eggs . |
| 30 | The gallery also sells a small number of original paintings , most of which are decorative and quirky , such as this study of a hen and her chicks by Anna Pugh , who paints with a mixture of oil and emulsion and charges between £1,000 and £2,000 . |