Example sentences of "and who [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 2 | She was critical of what she called ‘ strong-minded women ’ , who went in for stridency and useless eccentricity , preferring the ‘ sound-minded women … who can take a journey by railway without an escort , who can stand by a friend through a surgical operation , and who yet wear ordinary bonnets and carry medium-sized umbrellas ’ . |
| 3 | While most of us can recall dreams at least occasionally , there is a sizeable minority of people who claim never to dream , and who understandably have some difficulty in understanding what everyone else is talking about . |
| 4 | And a pretty minx who was an accomplished liar , and who doubtless had some ulterior motive , though God knew what , in choosing to live in a milieu so unlike her usual habitat . |
| 5 | But in terms of saying there are easy savings to be found in terms of greater efficiencies in this authority I warn you , we are reaching the level unless we actually want in putting a completely unacceptable level of stress on the people who we employ and who universally serve this city very finely and give such a very high level of service . |
| 6 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 7 | But singers with this ability ( and who also have absolute pitch ) are not very common , and if we want to have our music sung by the majority of singers , it is best to write within the normal limits : Many singers can exceed these limits , but we must remember that , apart from the fact that most people these days have middle-range voices , everyone has a limited zone in which the voice is at its best . |
| 8 | For some time there had been allegations in the foreign media of a power struggle centring on the issue of introducing political reforms between Alia and Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who was chair of the Democratic Front ( an umbrella organization dominated by the ruling Party of Labour — APL ) and who reputedly wielded great influence in the APL central committee . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) In paragraphs ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of this Rule references to the beneficial owner of a share do not include a person in whose name that share is registered and who beneficially owns that share . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) In paragraphs ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of this Rule references to the beneficial owner of a share do not include a person in whose name that share is registered and who beneficially owns that share . |
| 11 | Carl was the studious one , the worrier , the hard-worker , who had a very special attachment to Mother , and who forever gave one the impression that he was near to a nervous breakdown . |
| 12 | In part , this stems from society 's ability to handle risk better than the private individuals on whom it falls , and who therefore require large profits in compensation . |
| 13 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
| 14 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 15 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 16 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 17 | This included a third patient who bled after randomisation and before surgery and who subsequently rebled four months after the operation . |
| 18 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 19 | The manager(s) must be natural person(s) , or , if so permitted in the member state of registration , a company which designates individuals whose details are then filed as if they were the managers and who then have similar obligations . |
| 20 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |