Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser , originally a Gordon Highlander who had fought in France in the rearguard actions of 1940 , had been in the S.A.S. from the beginning , and both were veterans of classic raids in Sicily and Italy . |
| 2 | ‘ … preserve the memory and honour the example by charitable means of comrades or members of the Association who have died in our Service … ’ |
| 3 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 4 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 5 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 6 | I had a horse who loved going on the beach and in the sea at Weston-Super-Mare but hated puddles and tiny streams . |
| 7 | Roxburgh 's licence to live it up could be a matchwinner for a Scotland side who have lost in Switzerland and scraped a lucky home draw with Portugal in their opening Group One matches . |
| 8 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 9 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 10 | There was the redoubtable Mary O'Keefe — daughter of the famous sea-captain who became known as King O'Keefe of the South Seas . |
| 11 | Kellner says one possible explanation is that the 20 per cent of the electorate who refused to respond to the exit polls were disproportionately Tory , or that some voters lied , or both . |
| 12 | On the other hand the new Deputy Prime Minister in charge of finance and the economy , Boris Fedorov , Russia 's representative at the World Bank , was a radical reformer who had served as Russian Finance Minister in 1990 . |
| 13 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 14 | It was the Winnipeg agent who had to go among them arguing ( he was Scotch too , and they could not quite understand it ) on the impropriety of dislocating the company 's traffic . |
| 15 | With their SOE connexions , the SSRF found a dory more suitable than canoes when landing an agent who wanted to melt into the local scene rather than stagger ashore dripping wet from a canoe . |
| 16 | Clinton was much like the others — a rangy boy with a tuxedo in his trunk who had come to Oxford to study political science and to read all he could before starting to build a career in law and government . |
| 17 | Dame Una Pope-Hennessy ( the formidable mother of James and John Pope-Hennessy and a friend of Ivy and Margaret ) had been cross with a reviewer who had written of her book about jade : ‘ Dame Una skirts gracefully round the subject . ’ |
| 18 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 19 | Later , the witness who had testified against Muawad withdrew his allegation , saying it was ‘ politically motivated . ’ |
| 20 | She could n't imagine what it would be like having to get into bed with the elegant stranger who turned to speak to her now and then . |
| 21 | Derek Edwards spoke , too , of the presence of Charismatics in Orkney : ‘ It 's known that there is one social worker in this very small department who does belong to a Charismatic Christian Fellowship . |
| 22 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 23 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 24 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 25 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 26 | Fr Denis Faul , a Catholic priest who has campaigned against excesses by the security forces , said the appointment was ‘ rather unfortunate ’ . |
| 27 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |
| 28 | Mr Mellor is no soft touch , as those within the industry who had to negotiate with him quickly discovered , but he is accessible to reason , and that is itself a great advance on what had been experienced before . |
| 29 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 30 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |