Example sentences of "an [noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett shouted back , pushing away an apprentice who offered him spiced hot sheep 's feet . |
| 2 | Gregory 's father Ralph , who the boy claims is an alcoholic who abused him , did not contest the action and says his son will be better off with foster parents . |
| 3 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 4 | He used his handsome appearance to seduce an ogress who bore him three dreadful children , FENRIR the Wolf , the Midgard Snake and HEL , all of whom caused travail to the other gods . |
| 5 | This is a question that only you , or an adviser who knows your personal circumstances , can answer . |
| 6 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 7 | Jared Tunstall would , he knew , ruin an employee who stole his daughter away from him . |
| 8 | Whither now , at sixty-five , with an agent who sends me postcards from abroad as conscience sops , but never telephones because what work is there for such a one as I ( or is it me ) ? |
| 9 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 10 | Not an expert who shot him . |
| 11 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 12 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 13 | We have an eye-witness who heard him when he went to preach at Easington colliery to a large congregation of miners and their families , who felt that he himself and the other hearers were electrified . |
| 14 | Petra 's new hotel , built outside the Siq , is run by an Englishman who cut his catering teeth in the palaces of Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 16 | One of the most prominent of them was a tall youth with the extravagant gestures and loud voice of an actor who knows he 's going down well . |
| 17 | She felt like a child at the scene of an accident who knows nothing except that flesh was not made to be torn . |
| 18 | AN IRISHMAN who sold his family furniture for £600 was counting the cost today after Christie 's this week auctioned the same furniture for £230,000 . |
| 19 | Neither was a dominant dog , but Ollie was an opportunist who used his appeal to maintain certain rights that Melanie , especially , had given him . |
| 20 | She 's moved in with another man who 's an exboxer who knocks me around . |
| 21 | He could evangelise us disguised as a doctor who wants us to rest our bodies , an environmentalist who wants us to slow down , or as a psychiatrist telling us we will be less neurotic if we put our feet up and listen to the bird song for one day a week . |
| 22 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 23 | You 'll be surprised who has got a friend or an uncle who knows somebody who knows somebody else who is looking for a person like you ! |
| 24 | VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM The Art of Design : Edward Bawden , an artist who began his career studying calligraphy and went on to master the art of book illustration , printmaking , poster design , advertising . |
| 25 | Finally , Denis Lanzenberg is an artist who frames his own richly coloured paintings , then , instead of a title or caption , appends a small black-and-white photograph , which attracts the eye and complements the viewer 's appreciation of the composition . |
| 26 | None of these three films is uplifting or reassuring ; but then Jarman is an artist who uses his canvas to provoke and disturb . |
| 27 | An investor who gives his broker an order to sell when a stock falls to a certain figure is setting UP just such a system . |
| 28 | As soon as he stepped out into the fluorescent-lit corridor , he was met by an official who hurried him into a briefing room . |
| 29 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 30 | This ‘ simple delivery ’ ( remise simple in French ) is referred to in the text of the Hague Convention on Service Abroad of 15 November 1965 as ‘ delivery to an addressee who accepts it voluntarily ’ . |