Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | ‘ War starts at midnight ’ screams the bald-headed general when his steam bath is interrupted by a plucky Home Guard soldier who has launched a premature start to a military exercise . |
| 3 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 4 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 5 | This course should persuade a defendant who has raised a spurious latent defect defence to drop it : on the other hand , if such defence prevails , the plaintiff will have a valid claim against the producer . |
| 6 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 7 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 8 | A warrant may be issued for the arrest of any witness who fails to answer a witness summons provided the court is satisfied on oath that : ( i ) he is a material witness ; ( ii ) he has been served with the summons ; ( iii ) conduct money has been paid or tendered ; and ( iv ) there is no just cause for failure to attend ( MCA 1980 , s97(3) ) . |
| 9 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 10 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 13 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 14 | A sound lawyer who has found a seat in chambers on the common law side can expect at least some work . |
| 15 | One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war . |
| 16 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 17 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 18 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 19 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 20 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 21 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 22 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 23 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 24 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 25 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 26 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |
| 27 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 28 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 29 | Originally accumulated and gathered together by Chris Beacon , ‘ Yesterknits ’ has now been purchased by the Knitting & Crochet Guild who plan to offer a special pattern search service . |
| 30 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |