Example sentences of "who [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 3 | There are others who are not too worried about that , but who crave a good time . |
| 4 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 5 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 6 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 7 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 8 | Even though I make fun of it , and it 's not my favourite music , that does n't mean that it 's less valid than bands who last a long time , especially if it is enjoyed . |
| 9 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 10 | Even Mr Fraser of Neill 's , a source of many choice quotations on this issue had to admit that not all the women got married : " there are some who stay a long time . |
| 11 | Then he relaxes into a sorrowful smile , like when you remember someone you loved who died a long time ago . |
| 12 | Netting has many advantages for those who do it well , who choose the right time , place , wind and situation . |
| 13 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |
| 14 | ‘ A pretty , happy girl , who likes a good time and a good laugh . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed to be run for the benefit of chaps who wanted a good time — not chaps who wanted to re-create their public schools . |
| 16 | I do n't think that er , I think that unfortunately some of the older doctors definitely were misinformed and were n't educated and I think nowadays that the doctors are becoming very much more educated and perhaps the ones who have the bad time are the fortunate ones in so far as they 're getting the hormone replacement therapy if they 're lucky and they have sympathetic general practitioner . |
| 17 | If it can be claimed that the young men who spend a short time in a school before moving on provide the vitality , it is equally true that those who devote their whole lives to a single school give the continuity , tradition , and wisdom which are equally , if not more , important . |