Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants . |
| 2 | ‘ That sister who annoyed you so much this morning ? ’ |
| 3 | Under a Labour chairman who 's who 's got a nice job somewhere else now , I understand . |
| 4 | Since the 1986 Act allows a receiver , even though appointed out of court , to obtain the court 's directions , it is difficult to envisage circumstances in which an application to the court can be justified if the cheaper alternative is available , and the professional adviser who recommended it would be laying himself open to grave risk of criticism . |
| 5 | IN THEIR respective obituary and report ( 29 September ) , Andrew Horvat and James Fenton produced a picture of the late President Marcos which was too simply one of a celebrated political monster who got his come-uppance , writes James Hamilton-Paterson . |
| 6 | He , too , is a high-flying Socialist who declaims his no doubt sincerely-held beliefs from atop a mountain of privilege . |
| 7 | A person who requests legal advice should be given an opportunity to consult a named solicitor or a duty solicitor [ solicitors in private practice who take it in turns to be available to give advice , particularly overnight and at weekends ] . |
| 8 | ‘ SUICIDE AGGRAVATED BY OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE AND LACK OF CARE ’ was the verdict on a Ugandan refugee who hanged himself while in detention in Pentonville Prison . |
| 9 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 10 | Ports skipper Brian Strain made a fine run into enemy territory before squaring the ball to the Scottish striker who buried it past John Grace from 16 yards . |
| 11 | It is a type of book open to any would-be writer who feels he or she can work in the vein . |
| 12 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 13 | On a much busier occasion the calls before break were to attend the home of a widowed pensioner who thought she had heard an intruder , two road accidents , a near hit-and-run accident , and to move on youths . |
| 14 | And I 've not too many problems to report to you this evening either from British Rail who tell us that there 's a twenty three minute delay on the Manchester to Paddington service which was due in at Oxford at six twenty-four , ca n't quite do the sums there , but it is n't quite due in yet . |
| 15 | Well , on Thursday afternoon , Maurice was phoned at the office by a man with a foreign accent who said he wanted to talk to him about Sam . |
| 16 | Did you hear that thing about the old geezer who chopped his old man off ? |
| 17 | Hunt , who gave up a career in medicine to be a racing driver in 1967 , was given his chance by Lord Hesketh , the British peer who ran his own motor racing team . |
| 18 | ‘ B ’ movie fans will know that Wells Fargo 's stagecoaches proved a lucrative source of income for the less scrupulous members of the old West who made their living by robbing them . |
| 19 | Elizabeth is a 27-year old midwife who considers she has been at least a stone ( 14lb/6.5kg ) overweight since she was aged 16 . |
| 20 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 21 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You 'd simply be committing suicide : you 're either a killer or some fruitcake who thinks he 's a killer and neither wanted in today 's modern Army thank you . ’ |
| 24 | FILM star Whoopi Goldberg is being sued for £130m by another actress who claims she stole the idea for her hit film Sister Act . |
| 25 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 26 | There is n't anyone left in this club who reads anything more demanding than the Racing Times or tits and bums magazines . |
| 27 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 28 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 29 | Then you will go round those establishments , with one of the likenesses , until you find some girl who recognizes it . ’ |
| 30 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |