Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith is a good looking but scruffy 4-year-old who goes to a nursery unit ( attached to a primary school ) five mornings a week . |
| 2 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 3 | I , we 're not , I do n't know whether you 've got , we could say we were activists , we do n't , I do n't even know who goes on a march or anything , but we do do our best for anything we support and get signatures for anything they ask us to . |
| 4 | The passage is about a schoolboy who goes on an outing and drops his bag out of the window of a railway carriage . |
| 5 | Following DPP v Ray , above , a person who goes into a restaurant and orders a meal implies that he has money to pay for the meal . |
| 6 | She fulfils a typically female role : she is the one who receives from a God conceived as male . |
| 7 | No-one stopped him , which is surprising given that he 's not the sort who fits into a group of golfers , never mind a crowd . |
| 8 | So-called from ‘ hak ’ , a species of snake , developing into the term ‘ hagge ’ during the sixteenth century to describe ‘ a succubus who sits on a man 's chest and gives him nightmares ’ . |
| 9 | There is no place in the Branch for the engineer who sits in an office shuffling papers . |
| 10 | Like any small boy who scribbles on a wall that ‘ Johnny was here ’ , so the gestures of talented individuals can record , on behalf of all of us , that ‘ we were here ’ . |
| 11 | Your name is Angel , you 're the one with the cab , the one who plays in a band . |
| 12 | A friend of hers who plays in an orchestra . |
| 13 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 14 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 15 | Glynn has a brother-in-law who belongs to a gun club . |
| 16 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 17 | I think that the hon. Member , who belongs to a party that is supposed to believe in devolution , might occasionally support a practical piece of devolution . |
| 18 | No one who thinks for a moment will suppose that that is a path in which there are no hills to climb . |
| 19 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 20 | They think , for example , the feller who sleeps with a lot of women , he says oh I love women ! |
| 21 | A more important new tendency appeared in another Roman opera ( 1626 ) , La catena d'Adone by Domenico Mazzocchi ( 1592–1665 ) , who remarks in a note to the published score that he has inserted a number of ‘ mezz'Arie ’ which ‘ break the tedium of the recitative ’ ( che rompono il tedio del recitativo ) . |
| 22 | The film is about a lawyer who turns into a werewolf . |
| 23 | He landed the role of Buddy Baker , the shy younger son of a New York Jewish family who turns into a playboy . |
| 24 | He is refused hospitality by the rich village priest , who lives with a concubine . |
| 25 | As do higher-order animals , as anyone who lives with a cat or a dog will confirm . |
| 26 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 27 | Today we 'll be talking about the tale of a man who lives in a churchyard . |
| 28 | Gertrude is an absurd person who lives in a bird sanctuary ministering to ‘ oiled-up sea-birds ’ ( Elizabeth got that from a charity appeal ) . |
| 29 | Congress , any delegate who lives in a university town or who has a son or daughter at college can testify to the special promotions that all banks offer to students . |
| 30 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |