Example sentences of "the [noun] who [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . |
| 2 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 3 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |
| 4 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 5 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 6 | They were the people who did it for nothing . ’ |
| 7 | And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice . |
| 8 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 9 | Called after the man who invented it for research purposes . |
| 10 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 11 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 12 | That I am not , is due partly to my dislike of professional boxing and the men who manipulate it for their own ends , and partly to the fact that Lewis is yet another ‘ adopted ’ Englishman , who has spent most of his life in Canada , and won an Olympic medal fighting in their colours . |
| 13 | Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service . |
| 14 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 15 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 16 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 17 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 18 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |