Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 2 | Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself . |
| 3 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 4 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 5 | It will determine who forms a government on Friday and who governs our country for five years , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 6 | Jay had a horror of moths flying into her face and hair ; she liked to think of herself as someone who cups her hands for moths and spiders and frees them . |
| 7 | He confesses his past mistakes to his daughter who reaffirms her love for him and then , at the close of the play , he retires to the shade of a beech tree and dies . |
| 8 | He 's got a gentleman there who makes his meals for him and cleans the house . |
| 9 | To the story of Ulysses , Levinas opposes that of Abraham who leaves his fatherland for ever , never to return . |
| 10 | Anyone who shares my enthusiasm for Martin Scorsese 's Cape Fear may be interested in the ICA 's compilation of his juvenilia , four short films known as Scorsese×4 . |