Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoy a ride in a cart , pulled by Peter the shire horse who spends his days in a stable at Llanthony Yard . |
| 2 | An FBI spokesman said Koresh , 33 , the curly-haired former musician who says he is Jesus Christ , was still inside his fortified farm complex near Waco in Texas . |
| 3 | Ships with Wings ( 1941 ) , for example , tells the improbable story of a flyer who loses his commission after an attempt to impress the admiral 's daughter leads to the death of her brother . |
| 4 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 5 | What would you say about yourself , supposing that you write as an objective outsider who knows you well ? |
| 6 | A MAN convicted of murder who claims he was framed by the police to cover up their guilt was granted a retrial by the English Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 7 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 8 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 9 | Imagine a scientist in the distant future who knows everything about the mechanism and neurology of vision , but who is blind from birth . |
| 10 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 11 | Whither now , at sixty-five , with an agent who sends me postcards from abroad as conscience sops , but never telephones because what work is there for such a one as I ( or is it me ) ? |
| 12 | we can say generally that whatever is regarded as a truth functions as a norm of thinking , [ and ] imposes upon the conscious agent who recognizes it a distinctive selection and organization of some data of his experience . |
| 13 | Secondly , most of the fancy school fees plans are designed to make money for the financial institutions which put them together , and for the intermediary or agent who sells them . |
| 14 | One aspect of scientific style , however , is that in a passive sentence the person who acts is often not mentioned at all , to symbolise the scientific ideal that the procedures should be objective and repeatable , independent of the agent who carries them out . |
| 15 | 9 ( 8 ) HOUSESITTER : Romantic comedy about an architect , Steve Martin , who builds a dream home for a girlfriend who drops him and is replaced by Goldie Hawn . |
| 16 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 17 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 18 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 19 | A witness who says he knows who killed police informer Chalky White has admitted he 's scared of the alleged murderer . |
| 20 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 21 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 22 | They are clearly not " mistakes " from the point of view of their speakers , although to a hearer who knows nothing of Creole they may sound very odd . |
| 23 | Freud 's graded system of classification of jokes , from the crude and explicit to the refined and more abstract , implies that many of the fabliaux achieve an intriguing conflation of basic smut — in their overt expression of the dreams of masculine sexuality , with women , often other men 's wives , freely available , especially to the lover who spices his indulgence with daring and danger , and their insistence on the use of diction which is the opposite of refined — and the circumstances of the more sophisticated joke : where there is an inhibitor , he becomes the butt of the joke . |
| 24 | And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’ |
| 25 | ( What power resides in the hands of a journalist who wants his story , and knows how to needle his man till he gets it ! |
| 26 | This is a question that only you , or an adviser who knows your personal circumstances , can answer . |
| 27 | I have met no retailing captain of industry who makes my blood sing . |
| 28 | It is the sovereign who decides whom to send for and invite to form a government . |
| 29 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 30 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |