Example sentences of "to [pron] who [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits would accrue to everyone who would suffer the effects of flooding . |
| 2 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 3 | They were offering free accommodation and food to someone who would do what they described as a little gentle housework . |
| 4 | Even those of us who are keen to return the residents to London can not turn the clock back to those days , but I recommend Tower House to someone who would like to see Malmesbury go more gently into the future . |
| 5 | He 'd not leave it to someone who would turn it over . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the duke might give the post to someone who would take it in order to oblige the town council of Glasgow , perhaps even a member of that council , or one of the town 's lawyers . |
| 7 | Some people will wish to enquire in person and to speak to someone who can answer their questions . |
| 8 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 9 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
| 10 | The local sailors are the people who probably know the conditions best , so it is worthwhile speaking to someone who can point out the idiosyncrasies of the location . |
| 11 | → If your letter is serious , I am in no position to offer advice , since you really should see your doctor and ask him to refer you to someone who can help . |
| 12 | It 's not always easy for you to talk your problems through , but if there 's something bothering you , it might be a good idea to open up to someone who can help . |
| 13 | Your GP and your health visitor are sources of help , and can arrange suitable treatment , or refer you to someone who can help you . |
| 14 | PC SASPAC is therefore not useful to someone who will want to study low-level data for a large number of counties , though it is suitable for someone who is only interested in one or two and not fond of computers ! |
| 15 | he 's a traditionalist … and wants what is one of Britain 's greatest stately homes to go to someone who will look after it . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 17 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 18 | Then he 'd take it to someone who could cut er a key er so he could open the up the granary the late in in the middle of the night , when everybody were asleep , and steal oats for the horses . |
| 19 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 20 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 21 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 22 | Mr William Waldegrave , Britain 's cabinet minister in charge of science , has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding ( see page 781 ) . |
| 23 | May I appeal to anybody who might have information , or might know of where I can find information , on Alton in this period . |
| 24 | Now , Miss Gilberd , our valued teacher of the lower forms , will be in classroom 2B to talk to anybody who might wish to go along and see her ; Mr Makepeace will be in 4A ; Mr Farraday in the scientific laboratories , of course ; Mr Coffin in 5B … ’ |
| 25 | He called back the Congress he had dissolved the week before and , according to several congressmen , offered $10,000 to anybody who would show up . |
| 26 | He had learned to look after-himself , selling fake watches and drugs to anybody who would buy , and after killing a rival dealer had fled to Hawaii as a stowaway on a freighter . |
| 27 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 28 | Mr Bumble pointed at the notice on the wall above him , which offered five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist for work . |
| 29 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 30 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |