Example sentences of "who [verb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allen Paulson , who sold a half share to Sheik Mohammed for ten million dollars , reasoned he 's either not trained on or needs a psychiatrist . |
| 2 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 3 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |
| 4 | First there had been the stone tubs on the forecourt , a constant temptation to vandals who got a more than commonly satisfying kick from ravishing these particular flowers . |
| 5 | The investor who has a few privatisation shares and wants to extend a portfolio without paying for advice does have a cheap alternative to discretionary portfolio management . |
| 6 | It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle . |
| 7 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 8 | The manager , symbolically , takes his or her ‘ tin cup ’ in hand and walks around the organization ‘ begging ’ for involvement , seeing who has a little bit to chip in , who has a few spare budget dollars to invest , who has a staff member to lend , who will be on the advisory committee , or who has key data . |
| 9 | And you know i if a chil a child is bruised , very often erm you know if it it especially with you know , maybe a mother who has a few children to look after , and she 's on her own twenty four hours a day with them . |
| 10 | Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else . |
| 11 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 12 | I like women who 're small and neat and who know a few thing . |
| 13 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 14 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 16 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 17 | I saw my GP who prescribed a few different creams , none which worked . |
| 18 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
| 19 | There were a great many houses in the vicinity of Hadleigh of the same sort of size as Wyvis Hall and a newspaper would be likely to describe anyone who possessed a few acres as a ‘ landowner ’ . |
| 20 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 21 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 22 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 23 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 24 | On one occasion , however , a devotee who had a few too many drinks took a mud-covered Cobra to his home with the intention of washing the snake . |
| 25 | The guidelines contain a foreword by the Data Protection Registrar who had a few reservations about the guidelines . |
| 26 | The church attracted quite large congregations and the Sunday School not only offered pupils a full day trip to the sea during the summer but also splendid Christmas treats , thus somewhat upstaging the Anglicans who had a half day trip to the New Forest with an ordinary Christmas Tea . |
| 27 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 28 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 29 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 30 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |