Example sentences of "who [vb -s] at the [noun sg] " 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 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 3 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 4 | The one who lives at the end of the village . |
| 5 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The unanimously selected winner was Julie McDonnel who calls at the branch regularly as part of her job at Harwell 's Social Club . |
| 10 | A traveller is any person who calls at the inn to use the services there available . |
| 11 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman , who smiles at the idea , did not answer the question . |
| 12 | And , finally , for everyone who groans at the idea of a twice-weekly exercise class , what about trying toning tables ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is God who rejoices at the repentance of a sinner , just as the father rejoices at the return of the prodigal son . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson , who retires at the end of they year , promised that letter prices would be frozen until April . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Springfields-based Dr Sue Ion has been appointed Director of technology Development to succeed Dr Harry Allardice who retires at the end of August . |
| 25 | Thirty-six-year-old Mr Peter Rowley succeeds Mr Alan Wood , aged 62 , who retires at the end of next month after 21 years in the job . |
| 26 | Mr Tholen , who retires at the end of this month as chairman of Darlington Health Authority , is a dapper man of 67 who is never seen without a carnation in his lapel except , he says , when he is shooting or flying . |
| 27 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 28 | ‘ There is a man called Alain Gebrec who works at the Centre Cévenol d'Etudes in Roziac . ’ |
| 29 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 30 | If either considers it necessary , the headteacher or governing body may suspend , on full pay , anyone who works at the school . |