Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] for " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Eight people including Tengiz Pachkoria , a well-known Georgian journalist who works for Russia 's Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper and Tass , were wounded . |
| 6 | Erm some lady who works for the council or something . |
| 7 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 8 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 9 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 10 | Mr Turner was a chartered surveyor who worked for Hamptons estate agents , but had realised that he ‘ patently was n't suited to selling houses ’ . |
| 11 | But the central relationship between Teenotchy , a young black stable lad , and the delicate English lord who falls for him , is fresh and complex , and she teases the ironies out of the set-up with understatement and wit . |
| 12 | Schumacher , the former West German international who plays for Fenerbahce , and Pfaff who gives a Belgian flavour to Trabzonspor , have fallen foul of a Turkish federation ban on imported players . |
| 13 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 14 | CHAMP , the faithful terrier who pined for his dead master , has been put to sleep by a vet . |
| 15 | ‘ His … this guy who works for Kemp . |
| 16 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 19 | Many of the young feel alienated from old PLO hands , such as Haider Abdul Shafi , the prominent Gazan doctor who negotiates for the Palestinians in far-away Washington . |
| 20 | And let me tell you , coming off coke is the hardest damn thing in the world , and you 're real lucky if you have a rich daddy who pays for people to hold your hand while you go through the hell of it . |
| 21 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 24 | The 19-year-old butcher who boxed for England in June and trains with the England camp , is due to meet Barry Jones of Highfields . |
| 25 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 26 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 27 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 28 | What is more , Kylie herself profits rather than suffers from her not specially glamorous girl-next-door looks and produces an unstudied and effective portrait of a young , underage provincial girl who falls for Charlie Schlatter 's equally youthful sailor and gets dubbed a deliquent . |
| 29 | It divides into the critical parent , the judgemental voice in our heads , giving us instructions and punishment , how to behave and what we should do ; and the nurturing parent who cares for us , and meets our needs , supports , helps and educates . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |