Example sentences of "a [noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 2 | HOUSING officers have stepped in to help a mum who says her three children are virtual prisoners in their new home . |
| 3 | The teacher would haul him up and over , her angry voice taunting him , and he would try and remember that somewhere there was a mum who loved him and a dad who called him Tiger . |
| 4 | John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure . |
| 5 | Chased by the youths , he ran across a dual carriageway and flagged down a driver who rushed him to hospital . |
| 6 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 7 | To put the man in his place , Nigel said that he was a writer who got his best ideas in the small hours . |
| 8 | He says to himself , ‘ Thank goodness we have here a writer who understands our secret feelings . ’ |
| 9 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 10 | A supplier may offer a cash discount to a retailer who settles his account promptly . |
| 11 | When buying a bed , it is wise to visit a retailer who has plenty to choose from and to try out a selection . |
| 12 | Police are seeking a conman who tricked his way into the home of a 74-year-old woman in Smith Terrace , Gateshead , and stole £3 , hours after two conmen stole a purse from the home of an 83-year-old woman also in Smith Terrace . |
| 13 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 14 | See if you can find a vet who shares your enthusiasm . |
| 15 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 16 | A scientist who got his pilots ' licence just last week is off to Indonesia on an extraordinary mission . |
| 17 | A SALESMAN who raped his ex-girlfriend and tortured her with an electric stun gun was behind bars last night . |
| 18 | In the words of one congressman , ‘ A near idiot who has competent casework can stay in congress as long as he wants , while a genius who flubs it can be bounced very quickly . ’ |
| 19 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 20 | Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music . |
| 21 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 22 | A PENSIONER who said she would die if her 84 dogs were taken away yesterday pledged to fight a two-year ban on keeping animals . |
| 23 | A SCOUT leader taking part in an annual parade was attacked by a pensioner who thought he was a Hitler Youth member . |
| 24 | A mayor who cultivates his senator has a hot line to the ministry , and can always find his niece a job with a pension . |
| 25 | During the eighteenth century the State acknowledged his right to punish to the point of death a serf who displeased him , to enrol him in the army , to exile him to Siberia , to trade and dispose of his human property as he pleased . |
| 26 | How would he explain , for example , the fact that Roman Catholics and Protestants have fought one another , and been mutually hostile to one another , for long periods , as in Ireland in the twentieth century , even though they both have Christ as a figure who loves them ? |
| 27 | One of the stars was the trapeze artist , Señorita Pinito del Oro , a gypsy who learnt her art on a clothes-line strung between two Madrid apartment buildings . |
| 28 | They are clearly not " mistakes " from the point of view of their speakers , although to a hearer who knows nothing of Creole they may sound very odd . |
| 29 | A KILLER who carried his victim 's body through the streets in a wheelbarrow was yesterday sent to a special hospital indefinitely . |
| 30 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |