Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [vb past] 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 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 6 | CHAMP , the faithful terrier who pined for his dead master , has been put to sleep by a vet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |
| 17 | Joseph Wolf , the eminent artist who worked for Gould about 20 years later , had his own thoughts on the matter . |
| 18 | Bill Davies was a Welsh International winger who played for The Palace in nearly 200 Southern League matches in two spells with the club from 1907 , until the 1st World War forced a conclusion to fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 19 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 20 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | Born in Plymouth , Devon , to a poor stonemason , also called John and his wife Elizabeth , John Kitto was a sickly lad who cared for nothing but books . |
| 23 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 24 | They claim as their spiritual leader Bruce Babbitt , Arizona 's talented and common-sensical former governor who ran for president in 1988 and now works as a lawyer in Phoenix . |
| 25 | The only caller who stayed for any length of time said nothing at all . |
| 26 | But she had a strange temperament and we Were told by one man who worked for John Sayer and had helped to break her in that she was n't right in the head . |
| 27 | Jan Bartram , the Danish fullback who played for Rangers under Souness fell into disrepute at the club after a newspaper article led with the incriminating headline ‘ My Boss Is A Hooligan ’ . |
| 28 | Like the Dutch family who came for the half-term holiday in late February one year . |
| 29 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 30 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |