Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The crane hooking block 1 : a front punch is blocked by the defender who steps to the side . |
| 33 | ‘ Sir Vivien is the eleventh baronet and is the only surviving son of Sir Tregarron Blacker , the celebrated big-game hunter who died in the sinking of the Titanic , together with his wife , Lady Mabel . |
| 34 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 35 | Jose Ramon , a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago , will hopefully maintain these high standards . |
| 36 | Few grounds for optimism in these matters could be derived from the analysis of Paul Light who argued in The President 's Agenda that a chief executive 's success in getting his domestic policy agenda accepted would depend on his command of internal and external resources . |
| 37 | There is an old Middle Eastern story about a frog ( in some versions it is a fish ) and a scorpion who meet on the bank of a river that both need to cross . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 40 | Do n't you remember Jules Verne 's story about the professor who goes to the moon and accidentally kills off all its inhabitants because when he goes there he 's got a cold and they 're not used to it . ’ |
| 41 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 42 | History was taught by a whiskery professor who thundered about the Origin and Destiny of Imperial Britain . |
| 43 | Four Quartets offers an image of that " entity " , and the figure who appears in the Dantesque passage is a " familiar compound ghost " in whom Eliot suggested we might recognize Yeats , Mallarmé , Swift and Poe . |
| 44 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 45 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 46 | In the name of God Almighty , Father , Son and Holy Spirit , we dedicate this museum to the memory of all those of the Eighth Army Air Force who served in the Second War and in our dedication , we pray to Almighty God that there may be no third . |
| 47 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |
| 48 | VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election . |
| 49 | Every second day , food and medicine were delivered from Zacco and , strictly watched , the doctor was allowed to speak with the courier who came with the convoy . |
| 50 | The Republic of Indonesia ( comprising some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ) is a unitary state in which executive power resides in a President who governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet . |
| 51 | Simpkins , a double-glazing fitter who travels from the Isle of Wight , played on despite early injury . |
| 52 | Simpkins , a double-glazing fitter who travels from the Isle of Wight , played on despite early injury . |
| 53 | If the great aristocracy was responsible for providing large contingents for the war ( and , in England , at least , it was they who , after the king , provided the largest ) the work of raising these soldiers was often done by men of local knowledge and influence who subcontracted with the royal captains to raise the troops required . |
| 54 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 55 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 56 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 57 | A diplomat who rushed to the scene from the nearby headquarters of the Arab League said : ‘ It was a small thing . |
| 58 | I 've got a granny who comes from the south isles and she says and that 's . |
| 59 | One such group were the Cincars , descendants of a people of Romanian origin who moved into the Balkans during the early days of Turkish rule . |
| 60 | The Older Man type who came to the funeral . |