Example sentences of "a [noun sg] who [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an old Middle Eastern story about a frog ( in some versions it is a fish ) and a scorpion who meet on the bank of a river that both need to cross . |
| 2 | Executive power is formally vested in the British monarch , represented by a Governor-General who acts on the advice of a Council of Ministers . |
| 3 | He did n't want a wife who stood on the periphery of his existence , always the foreigner , never involved with Italy . |
| 4 | However in the light of the subsequent prosecution appeal to the House of Lords and the doubt discussed above concerning whether the non-certified points of appeal could have been raised there , B's position was tantamount to a person who loses on the one point of appeal judicially addressed and who is given no answer to his remaining points of appeal . |
| 5 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 6 | Yet even this would be disputed by a Davidsonian who insisted on the primacy of a language of identity , reference and quantification before crediting anyone with even the general notion of an object . |
| 7 | He was very much a German type of dog , with a very impressive head , a dog who excelled on the move . |
| 8 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 9 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 10 | Mr Lloyd , 39 , a councillor who works on the Ford assembly line in Southampton , is used to hopeless cases : his first political action as a child was to take the newsboys on his street out on strike . |
| 11 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 12 | Both end walls have paintings of 1710 by the Jesuit , Tausch , a copyist who worked on the cartoons of the Italian fresco painter , Andrea del Pozzo . |