Example sentences of "the [noun sg] who [verb] into the " in BNC.
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1 | Police are still trying to trace the gang who broke into the authority 's offices in Hollyhurst Road , Darlington , on Friday night . |
2 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
3 | Crippled … the boy who dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool . |
4 | Like the lady who came into the shop one day and asked for a bottle of ‘ blue ’ . |
5 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
6 | People just said that Elsie was the woman who fell into the river and drowned . |
7 | So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic . |
8 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
9 | But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger , an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder . |
10 | This might not be sufficient if the guest who strayed into the storeroom and was injured could not read English . |
11 | It is a good opportunity to point out the differences between the two species , and we drift in until the seals get restless ; it is the grey who rolls into the water first . |