Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view of the incorporation of natural science into the school curriculum is taken by David Layton , who offers us a valuable account of this process of ‘ accommodation ’ in the late nineteenth century , complementary to his earlier study of the demise of ‘ the science of common things ’ . |
| 2 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 3 | ( Paul Du Noyer 21/1/84 — who made it a joint Single Of The Week along with Cyndi Lauper 's ‘ Girls Just Want To Have Fun ’ and Echo And The Bunnymen 's ‘ The Killing Moon ’ ) |
| 4 | Are you , are telling are you telling me that you 'd vote for somebody in rags on the television who promised you a better future ? |
| 5 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 6 | After Charlotte 's death in 1783 , the great love of Hickey 's life was Jemdanee , one of his Indian mistresses , who bore him a short-lived son . |
| 7 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 9 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 10 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 11 | Yet the big powers have tended to pick high-grade but unadventurous diplomats who give them a quiet life . |
| 12 | There are many of us who owe him a great deal . |
| 13 | He deliberately shared the limelight with Tom Mboya of Kenya who showed himself a brilliant chairman . |
| 14 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 15 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 16 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 17 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 18 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 19 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 20 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 21 | The Repeater Hand Gun is also used from horseback by gallant Imperial Engineers who find it a devastating if temperamental device . |
| 22 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 23 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 24 | The idea has had opponents who claim its an easy option for people who would otherwise be behind bars . |
| 25 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 26 | Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits , and how little she might mean it ? |
| 27 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 28 | Nevertheless she was her usual polite society self with Mr Sands — she had learned in her papa 's home and at the embassy how to put people at their ease — and all in all the sight of his skivvy doing the gracious afforded Dr Neil another bout of inward sardonic mirth , however it delighted young Mr Sands , who thought what a splendid creature she was , and a great pity she was only a servant — she had so much presence . |
| 29 | Ramsey made a speech which disconcerted the managers of the conference , who thought it a bad example of English insularity . |
| 30 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |