Example sentences of "who have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
| 2 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 3 | Phone calls for Head who has gone to visit a school where one of our pupils now attends full time . |
| 4 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 5 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |
| 6 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |
| 7 | Indeed , for the individual who has arrived to keep a rendezvous with the pictures alone , there is the feeling of being conspicuously different , especially if you lose your social poise and start glaring fiercely at works which are almost always above someone 's head . |
| 8 | I understand Turkey holds no attraction for the out-of-contract striker , who has refused to sign a one-year deal at Anfield . |
| 9 | Roger Poole , and other leaders of the overtime ban , have vowed to do whatever they can to force a face-to-face confrontation with Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , who has refused to countenance a meeting . |
| 10 | In other instances the biographer may have been commissioned by the family of a person who has died to write a biography with their authorization and co-operation . |
| 11 | Venables who has attempted to keep a low profile , hoping not to give the book credence , will point out that he invested £3½ million , and many hours of his day to seize control of the club , when his successful takeover bid helped solve Tottenham 's financial problems , and oust Scholar as a consequence . |
| 12 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 13 | He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment . |
| 14 | The former Arsenal and England midfielder , who has failed to win a regular first team place during his 16 months at Elland Road , complained bitterly at the weekend after being dropped for the home game against Swindon . |
| 15 | Anyone who has tried to swat a fly will know that its reactions are almost instantaneous . |
| 16 | ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground . |
| 17 | Second marriages were therefore common , as anyone who has tried to construct a family tree for this period will know . |
| 18 | Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be . |
| 19 | Anyone who has had to teach a mathematically based subject will know the difficulties which students encounter in negotiating a new level of abstraction . |
| 20 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 21 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 22 | Brückner 's investigators had found a jeweller who 'd refused to buy a cross that fitted the description of the Holy Relic . |
| 23 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 24 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 25 | The risk is that the Turks , who 've begun to develop a very active policy , will try to grab the northern part of Iraq . |
| 26 | The defendants who had contracted to refurbish a block of flats sub-contracted the carpentry work to the plaintiff for a price of £20,000 to be paid in instalments related to the work completed . |
| 27 | The arrival of Mosley would mean a British controlling interest at the top , much to the astonishment of the French and the Italians , the selfstyled ‘ Mediterranean mafia ’ who had hoped to retain a balance of power . |
| 28 | There were others , such as Marie , who had hoped to gain a greater understanding of a subject they loved , and found themselves bogged down in a process of constant marking and grading , passing and failing . |
| 29 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 30 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |