Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |
2 | In theory it is the chairperson , who sits in the middle , who is the most crucial member of the interview panel , but in practice one of the others may have the real power to make decisions or the personality to override the others . |
3 | ‘ What can you do ’ , an exasperated colleague once complained , ‘ with a leader who sits in the smoking room reading the Strand Magazine ? ’ |
4 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
5 | It presently regards certain expressions as ‘ unparliamentary ’ and a Member who persists in the use of such expressions stands ultimately to be punished by the House for doing so . |
6 | But for the help of a friend who sleeps in the bungalow at night , and who can help her go to the toilet if she needs to , she says she would have to go into a home . |
7 | There 's a nurse who sleeps in the house , and one of the lasses knocked for her to come and look at us . |
8 | So how can tax havens now be used by the wealthy individual who lives in the UK ? |
9 | They 're not like Piladu who lives in the valley . ’ |
10 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
11 | James Desmond is an old man , who lives in the north of England . |
12 | She is a 34-year-old lady who lives in the suburbs of a city with her husband or partner . |
13 | Billy Andrews , who lives in the Cregagh area , discovered the three-month-old pet was missing from his garage yesterday afternoon . |
14 | In January the NRA announced proposals for an alternative site for the reservoir which could save Mr Tarry , who lives in the village of Brinkley , and his neighbours in Carlton and Bradley . |
15 | Derek Pritchard who lives in the village wants to build a house on his own land next-door to his parents for himself and his fiancee , but was refused planning permission in April this year . |
16 | Fellow enthusiast Mr John Morgan , an ICI accountant who lives in the village and is secretary of the Norton club , added : ‘ Some of the best players are women . ’ |
17 | The church approached Darlington fire sub officer Brett Clayton who lives in the village and is himself a collector of fire engines . |
18 | Fireman Brett Clayton , who lives in the village and collects old fire engines , was asked for advice and he in turn contacted Dr Barry Hutchinson , a fellow enthusiast . |
19 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
20 | Well more about that later , but first the tale of the man who lives in the cemetery . |
21 | Dick Faucenbois is a character who lives in the memory , an individual in his eager response to adventure , exciting sympathy for his loneliness and admiration for his courage and his quick wits . |
22 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
23 | The lady who lives in the cottage called Happylands has put a smile back on the face of her landlord . |
24 | A 17 year old single mother , who lives in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , is having her driving lessons paid for by the county 's social services department . |
25 | The retired GP , aged 73 , who lives in the Spinney , Middleton St George , worked his way up through the order to the post of county surgeon for County Durham . |
26 | Amadé gives her man the flower — it 's called by my people the flower of Adesangé , the red god , of fire and life , who lives in the volcano of the island — ; |
27 | He produced thousands of drawings and paintings , which after his death his wife , who lives in the Cotswolds , published in a book . |
28 | We obviously on top of that want to make sure who lives in the camps and see if they match our descriptions . |
29 | Denis Kinsella ( 26 ) who lives in the Nottingham area and Pairic MacFhloinn ( 39 ) who is from Eire , are jointly charged with the attempted murder of 25-year-old Pc Mark Toker and with kidnapping . |
30 | A FORMER soldier who lives in the Republic is high on the list of suspects drawn up by intelligence analysts hunting an IRA sniping team operating along the border . |