Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 2 | The Turner was given to the Royal Holloway — which occupies a 800-room Grade I listed building — in 1883 by its founder , Thomas Holloway , a Victorian philanthropist who bought it for £3,675 . |
| 3 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 4 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 5 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 6 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 7 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 8 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 9 | The military historian , James Lucas , who served in Tunisia as Keyes 's runner , remembered him as ‘ a gallant Christian gentleman who sacrificed himself for the men under his command ’ . |
| 10 | For Binks was a plant collector , sending his finds to several eminent gentlemen in the Darlington area who paid him for his keen eyes and diligent legwork . |
| 11 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 12 | They say Koons is a major artist who sacrifices nothing for his work . |
| 13 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 14 | Called after the man who invented it for research purposes . |
| 15 | She had lost everything , first her father and then her home , to a man who cared nothing for her . |
| 16 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 17 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 18 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 19 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 21 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |