Example sentences of "who [vb -s] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in Twin Peaks , from the policeman who cries at the scene of a crime to the lady who appears in certain scenes inexplicably carrying a log , is well , a little weird . |
| 2 | She 's riding her Dad 's horse , Formula One , who lives at the Caradoc Court stables of John Edwards near Ross on Wye . |
| 3 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 4 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 5 | The one who lives at the end of the village . |
| 6 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 7 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 8 | Here is an example of an impro exercise for two actors : ‘ An actor is asked to assume the character of a close family friend who arrives at the house with the news of the death of the wife 's husband in an accident . |
| 9 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 10 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
| 11 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 12 | The unanimously selected winner was Julie McDonnel who calls at the branch regularly as part of her job at Harwell 's Social Club . |
| 13 | A traveller is any person who calls at the inn to use the services there available . |
| 14 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman , who smiles at the idea , did not answer the question . |
| 15 | And , finally , for everyone who groans at the idea of a twice-weekly exercise class , what about trying toning tables ? |
| 16 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 17 | John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide . |
| 18 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |
| 19 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 20 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 21 | It is God who rejoices at the repentance of a sinner , just as the father rejoices at the return of the prodigal son . |
| 22 | At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring . |
| 23 | A nurse who trains at the age of forty still has many years of valuable service ahead and many years of past experience to draw upon . |
| 24 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 25 | The Aussie , who leaves at the end of this season to head the Auckland assault on Australia 's Winfield Cup competition , insists playing standards have improved dramatically in his time . |
| 26 | This mechanically manic installation-cum-excursion is the work of Steve Barry , a New York trained artist who teaches at the University of New Mexico . |
| 27 | Mr Hadley , who teaches at the Grants School of Wine , cites studies which have found that compared with lifelong abstainers , moderate drinkers show a 26 per cent reduction in the incidence of heart trouble . |
| 28 | Chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson , who retires at the end of they year , promised that letter prices would be frozen until April . |
| 29 | With unemployment around 300,000 , the highest rate in the EC , consumers are very nervous about the future , says Frank Young , managing director of Wilson Hartnell Advertising , a doyen of the industry , who retires at the end of this month . |
| 30 | Springfields-based Dr Sue Ion has been appointed Director of technology Development to succeed Dr Harry Allardice who retires at the end of August . |