Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 2 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 3 | That was David who works for Fast Forward . |
| 4 | New tests have been introduced for candidates who apply for top council posts in Sefton . |
| 5 | The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies . |
| 6 | In his early days with us Hamilton was one of those attacking centre-halves who made for great excitement , supporting his forwards and ever-ready to have a go at goal . |
| 7 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 8 | From the nineteenth-century reformers who pressed for universal schooling to today 's schemes for increasing the numbers of girls studying science , education has been the site of the struggle for equality of opportunity . |
| 9 | A good contemporary example can be seen in the typographers who work for British newspapers . |
| 10 | Hundreds of pensioners in the north and south of England who work for that company are about to lose their pensions , including a 79-year-old widow . |
| 11 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 12 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 13 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 14 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 15 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 16 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 17 | He was Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; he was Spring-Heel 'd Jack , the Terror of London ; he was Sir Percival Glyde , the Spine-Snapping Baronet ; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor Maria Marten in the Red Barn ; he was Varney the Vampyre , Wagner the Wehr-Wolf , jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde , the Oxton Creeper , the Coughing Horror , the Face at the Window … |
| 18 | I think we 've said it before did , about David Lawrence that he , he has the ability to bowl very quickly and in that learning curve of test cricket , he 's now got to go from a , a lad who goes for five and six and all the regularly , he 's got to drop that economy rate , down to three and still take the and then he 's a test bowler . |
| 19 | Individuals who work for such organisations tend to learn an expertise without experiencing risk ; many do their job adequately , but are not over-ambitious . |
| 20 | In contrast to the respondent quoted earlier , this candidate saw headhunting as ‘ an important way of progressing , particularly for individuals who work for smaller companies or in very specialised fields ’ . |
| 21 | everybody you meet except for individuals who work for those er types of companies will be business people . |
| 22 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 23 | But the inspectors have exonerated three chartered accountants who worked for Blue Arrow , although some of their actions were also criticised . |
| 24 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 25 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 26 | A farm on the other side of the lane provided fresh eggs , the stench of cow shit , and a rabid mongrel roped to a tree who barked for twenty minutes whenever a car went by . |
| 27 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 28 | Mr Hobbs said the immediate effect would be the loss of 50 jobs , the groundstaff at Stansted who work for American Airlines . |
| 29 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 30 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |