Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 David Stirling was one of those individuals who combine within themselves the ability to dream and the ruthless singlemindedness to transform their ideas into action .
2 You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him .
3 Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ?
4 Strett also converted the try by Morris , who capitalised on what the pack had started for an opportunist try at the posts .
5 Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year .
6 Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not .
7 This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income .
8 Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives .
9 In other words , it is the Spirit of Jesus who reproduces in us the crucifixion and the resurrection of our Lord .
10 Minuchin 's description of the anorexic as one who takes upon herself the burden of familial conflicts and the internal conflicts of those around her indicates that the anorexic ‘ sees ’ what is going on within and among other people in a very special way .
11 By May 1942 he was worn out and was relieved by Viscount Gort [ q.v. ] , who brought with him the George Cross awarded to Malta by George VI .
12 One of the many who took upon himself the suffering of his parents was Norbert .
13 At its first meeting , this had been essentially a group of provincial enthusiasts ; but they were soon brought within the fold of the established Church Scientific , the ‘ gentlemen of science ’ mostly from Cambridge , who took upon themselves the direction of the efforts of the provincial amateurs .
14 Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed .
15 Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University .
16 Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire .
17 The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists .
18 Christian holiness involves both devotion and ethics ; it springs from allegiance to Jesus , who embodies in himself the ideal of human conduct .
19 The largest section under David Stirling , who had with him the repaired ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ , headed for the escarpment above Fuka .
20 The Bill will produce the finance necessary to allow the mines to operate efficiently and effectively , and will give the people who work in them the opportunity to feel that they are part of an industry no longer hooked on public subsidy .
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