Example sentences of "who [verb] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My first sortie was on 18/19 August with a Peter Heywood , a son of the manse , who gave me a faultless demonstration of captaincy . |
| 32 | ‘ See what I mean ? ’ he demanded of Laura , who gave me a quick , apologetic glance , then looked down at the table . |
| 33 | For the first meeting of our 1990-91 winter programme our invited speaker was Mr Michael Parker of ‘ Centro ’ , the West Midlands Transport Executive , who gave us a fascinating insight into the planning , routes and probable operation of the intended West Midlands light rail system . |
| 34 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 35 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 36 | Good practice for them getting there : fly to Paris make contact with somebody who gives them a new passport find your own way to Frankfurt . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ He is amicable , jovial , the kind of man who gives you a two-handed handshake . |
| 38 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 39 | we can say generally that whatever is regarded as a truth functions as a norm of thinking , [ and ] imposes upon the conscious agent who recognizes it a distinctive selection and organization of some data of his experience . |
| 40 | This earned it black marks in the eyes of its founder , Beamish , who considered it a decrepit and defunct organization not worthy of his continuing support . |