Example sentences of "who [verb] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it goes to the copy editor , who says marvellous things like , ‘ The door was on this side of the room on page 24 , and on the other side on page 124 . ’ |
| 2 | There were witches who healed children and cattle , wizards who worked great things for lords . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew someone once who loved growing things , like you . |
| 4 | Like Simon said , he was just a vandal who liked spoiling things . |
| 5 | She was an ordinary , small town girl who liked ordinary things : a comfortable home , a glass of beer , an evening with good friends . |
| 6 | " It 's people like that who do terrible things . " |
| 7 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 8 | People speaking our own language , people who do similar things to ourselves . |
| 9 | I mean presumably erm when erm er you know when er when people fight religious crusades , very often they see themselves as er justified by a religious precedence of the past by the great prophets of the past or , or , or great leaders who did similar things and er they , they consciously justify what they 're doing do n't they by saying well you know we 're er we 're , we 're doing , fighting this crusade or , or carrying out this policy er and these are the historical precedences . |
| 10 | The child was right when she said it was people like that who did terrible things . |
| 11 | The elder Duke ( 1701–1750 ) was one of the original subscribers to John Bartram 's collecting expeditions and Collinson wrote to Philadelphia in 1743 : ‘ Only Philip Miller and the Duke of Richmond , who love new things , continue to contribute . ’ |
| 12 | I know it sounds a bit sick in the head , but it 's not , it 's not really sick … anybody who does daring things , they could n't suddenly stop doing them … |
| 13 | Yes , and that is Saddam 's dilemma , I mean , yo the point about him is this , one must n't think of him as being a rational er politician who does sensible things , for sensible reasons . |
| 14 | It was a profound philosopher ( or maybe The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy ) who said bad things always happen on Thursdays . |
| 15 | The eponymous narrator of Emma Smart is a child-prodigy mathematician , now an awkwardly virginal 21 , who learns maturing things about the unpredictable world beyond the cloisters of pure maths during a sabbatical in Manhattan . |
| 16 | The material new facts that have emerged involve new evidence from certain officers who were present on the night of the crime and who witnessed certain things . |
| 17 | Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations ! |