Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 2 | Donald Trump left Ivana , a Czech , for Georgia peach Marla Maples and now plans to sue his former wife , who agreed to a gagging order over their marriage as part of her $10m divorce settlement . |
| 3 | Mr Sheppard , who qualified as a chartered secretary at the beginning of his career , believes their skills will become highly relevant during the 1990s . |
| 4 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 5 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 6 | Even those who insist on a modern digital recording , as distinct from digitally remastered analogue sound , will find a remarkably wide choice . |
| 7 | However , Alistair Clark , president of the Law Society of Scotland , which represents 6,400 solicitors , criticised the decision to allow banks , building societies and other authorised practitioners who complied with a statutory code of conduct to charge for conveyancing . |
| 8 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 9 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 10 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 11 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 12 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 13 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 14 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 15 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |
| 16 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 17 | The Kaszubian people who lived along the western Danzig suburbs were badly affected by the changes of Prussian and German rule . |
| 18 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 19 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 21 | It was true however that Doris Smythe , an elderly widow who lived on the opposite side of their suburban road in a small rented house , did n't like too much bustle around her . |
| 22 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 23 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 24 | One day they decided to visit their best friends , the three billy-goats Gruff who lived over the rickety bridge . |
| 25 | Prenzlauer Berg was one of the most deprived and crime-ridden areas of East Berlin , a haven for the criminals who lived off the poor and an ideal proving ground for the young officer . |
| 26 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 27 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 28 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 29 | ‘ Harry ’ had a paddock full of mares who lived in a semi wild state , receiving little handling and no extra feed . |
| 30 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |