Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , he became embittered with age , losing his fine looks and noble habits , and becoming a surly , cob-webbed ghost who lived in dark caves . |
| 3 | Samuel Pepys , the noted diarist who died in 1703 , dated his journals on the basis of the Annunciation , but invariably noted 1 January as ‘ New Year ’ . |
| 4 | Here , endears himself to the working scientist who tires of the seemingly endless efforts by historians to dig up some obscure individual who ‘ did it first ’ . |
| 5 | Doctor Who would tempt those , but more importantly also the uncatered-for majority who revelled in Buster , Valiant or the directly derivative TV Comic . |
| 6 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 7 | Hare , the world 's greatest accumulator who retired after the Pilkington Cup Final in April , signed off with a club record total of 438 points last season . |
| 8 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 9 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 10 | The following morning our team of John , a theology student from a Jesuit College who talked like Derek Nimmo in All Gas and Gaiters , James , a British Telecom engineer ( useful ) and I , set off to follow a long and complicated trail across Colchester . |
| 11 | Its hero , Sya , is a crippled Iranian soldier who arrives in London with his sister , Sohy , seeking medical treatment . |
| 12 | The report said eight people including Tengiz Pachkoria , a well-known Georgian journalist who works for Russia 's Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper and the ITAR-Tass news agency , were wounded . |
| 13 | Eight people including Tengiz Pachkoria , a well-known Georgian journalist who works for Russia 's Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper and Tass , were wounded . |
| 14 | Another was a Scots upholsterer who kept on his business because ‘ that was his life ; ’ a third , a retired London stevedore who ‘ had a pub in Rotherhithe . ’ |
| 15 | DALTON Grant , Britain 's high jumper who threatened to ‘ make the big boys sweat in Barcelona ’ flopped out and could only reach 2.15 metres — near the bottom of the list . |
| 16 | A TEENAGE driver who died after crashing into a tree was in a stolen vehicle , a coroner heard yesterday . |
| 17 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 18 | Gooseneck found out about it through a retired old retainer who lived in the area . |
| 19 | They 'll face a touch continental line-up , including last year 's winner Yakov Tolstikov from the Commonwealth of Independent States , Poland 's Jan Huruk and Mark Plaatjes , the South African-born runner who lives in America . |
| 20 | There a resident of another settlement who heard about the incident came by . |
| 21 | The alert was started by another inmate who tipped off prison staff . |
| 22 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 23 | Here was a back-to-the-wall President who BELIEVED in what he was saying and who shifted opinion overnight with a high-risk tour de force which seems to have swung next week 's referendum . |
| 24 | Now they were all sitting round discussing a fatal accident in muted voices , with an old priest who smelled of garlic beside them , cutting a piece of cheese into wafer-thin slices . |
| 25 | It was an influence summarized by Herol Graham , himself a redoubtable boxer who wallowed in his reputation as a ‘ Flash Harry ’ , as follows : ‘ There were n't many blacks in my area [ in Nottingham ] and I 'd get called black … . |
| 26 | Included are a water wheel , water float , his very own magnetic brave diver who dives from Bathtime Bear 's nose and slides down a shoot into the water . |
| 27 | Another socialist who agreed with Mosley in 1930 was Nye Bevan . |
| 28 | The architect responsible for the restoration of the villas , all of which were built between 1925 and 1935 , is Bertus Mulder who worked with Rietveld before the latter 's death in 1964 . |
| 29 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 30 | Burun nodded to a mounted trooper who galloped after the boy , guarding him like a mother hen with a chick . |