Example sentences of "who [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanelli sealed their win thanks to outside half Colin Stephens , who wins back the Welsh No 10 shirt from Neil Jenkins . |
| 2 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 3 | And what terrible damage they do , have done through the centuries , from the Inquisitor General to Stalin , to your young neighbour in the IRA who believes in the Catholic God and uses that to justify his murdering you in your bed , to the Mullah who whips up the faithful to civil strife in the name of Allah , to the Moonie who steals your children 's money and affections . |
| 4 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 5 | ‘ Most people who make even the slightest contact with a wire carrying 25,000 volts die . |
| 6 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 7 | And at the end of the twentieth century , it is the unchurched who make up the vast , tens of millions strong majority of the population . |
| 8 | ‘ These are the people who make up the vast majority of the paperback book-buying public . ’ |
| 9 | Two more world champions are in action tonight ; Swindon 's Bob Anderson lines up with John Lowe at the Super Marine Club in South Marston to take on a handful of local challengers who make up the best in the west . |
| 10 | They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears Only those books come down which deserve to last . |
| 11 | In these circumstances it necessitated ‘ the employment of commercial wage-workers who make up the actual office staff ’ . |
| 12 | It is these highly-skilled experts who make up the 85-year-old association and exclusive club over which Mr Smythe now presides . |
| 13 | That comforting ‘ usual ’ audience are the connoisseurs of all things cool who make up the heaving Dingwall 's audience on any Sunday afternoon . |
| 14 | CIOB members , who make up the single biggest group of professional visitors to Interbuild , are to be offered complimentary Select Gold membership at the show . |
| 15 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 16 | " Ludd " was again invoked , but so too was a new name , " Enoch " , the huge hammer of destruction named , ironically , after the firm of Enoch and James Taylor who made both the shearing frames and the sledges which broke them ! |
| 17 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 18 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 19 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 20 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 21 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 22 | This point is emphasised by John Byrne in The Headhunters , who described how the carefully-chosen new chief executive , Harold Geneen , ‘ the General Patton of American Industry ’ , effectively turned ITT around . |
| 23 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 24 | Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district . |
| 25 | Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice . |
| 26 | From the gauzy film of ginger hair which covers his scalp but fails to conceal it , to his gleaming Doc Martens , Harry is designed to make anyone who has even the smallest stake in the present scheme of things cross to the other side of the street . |
| 27 | You 're just an ignorant little squirt who has n't the foggiest idea what you 're talking about ! ’ |
| 28 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 29 | And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace . |
| 30 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |