Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it .
2 It could only be someone who had gone for a marathon walk or a solitary picnicker who had lain down and fallen asleep .
3 I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question .
4 Mercer Lorrimore , unattended by the rest of his family , talked pleasantly with his trainer , who had come from Toronto , and shook hands with his jockey , the same one who had ridden for him at Woodbine .
5 It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for .
6 I write as one who has cycled for over 40 years and who rides between 8,000 and 9,000 miles per year ( I am an occasional motorist too ) .
7 It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’
8 W was there anyone who came to work for you
9 She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre .
10 She confesses to thinking more now about her social life , and marriage and children do n't seem quite so remote from her dreams but her temporal desires remain on the backburner still , sacrificed for a higher purpose : the music and anyone who attempts to dig for a Máire , a Sinéad , or a Mary Couglan should be arrested for indecency .
11 ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest .
12 At Burley Camp in Devon a crock of gold is said to be buried , but anyone who tries to dig for it is said to be scared away by thunder and lightning .
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