Example sentences of "who the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was another route he would choose — after meeting the scribe again , Huy had little doubt who the rich client at the City of Dreams had been , and knew why his profile , fleetingly glimpsed , had seemed familiar . |
| 2 | The shot was supplied by Chris Baldwin who thinks the observer was Tony Buxton , does not know who the green-fingered pilot was , but knows they both survived . |
| 3 | They would n't eat anything living — who knows who the scrappiest fowl might have been ? |
| 4 | I wondered who the young girl was , acting the doe for Henry 's buck , but I decided not to wait and see and promptly fled . |
| 5 | He asked me who the young man with the dark curly hair was , and I told him . |
| 6 | At first I did n't know who the bearded man was for ( as I realise now ) I had been too busy participating to see . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Jodhi May , in her first American celluloid outing , makes a good stab of portraying the frail but ultimately doomed Alice Munro , one of the daughters of Fort William Henry 's Scottish commander Colonel Munro who the mighty Magua , the wronged Huron war chief , has vowed to destroy . |
| 8 | In both situations , time taken trying to establish who the key influencers and decision-makers are will be well rewarded . |
| 9 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 10 | The consent of the existing licensee is not a statutory requirement , however most boards insist that consent is endorsed on the principal licence or is indicated to the clerk in writing , in order to ensure no dispute arises after the application is considered as to who the correct licence holder should be . |
| 11 | ‘ Then perhaps they 'll discover soon who the guilty party is . ’ |
| 12 | You do not know who the rival bidders are , who wants what , or how much they are likely to bid . |
| 13 | There is , however , the problem of who the working partners actually are , especially at level three . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you know who the prospective owner was , ’ asked the Captain , ‘ when you discussed these plans ? ’ |
| 15 | Who the cunning ones may be who calculatingly steal a harem from exhausted combatants after a battle is a question yet to be answered . |
| 16 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 17 | ‘ Who the bloody 'ell does he think he is , bleedin' ‘ Itler ? ’ |
| 18 | Who the bloody hell are you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And if you ai n't got it , then who the bloody hell has ? |
| 20 | oh my god , who the bloody hell 's got a |
| 21 | Who the bloody hell was that she goes ? |
| 22 | I remember him waving to me one day , I thought who the bloody hell 's that ? |
| 23 | Arriving at the right message , deciding who the right people are , and how to reach them , is a highly complex business , and the result is an advertising strategy for your client which is sound and provides a realistic and workable rationale for his campaign . |
| 24 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who knows George Amiroutzes knows who the real devil is . |
| 26 | — You want to see who the real winner is , then look up there . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If that was the case , Sir John , we would hang half of Cheapside for adultery and still not discover who the real murderer is . ’ |
| 28 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 29 | Last week , we considered who the real clients for nursing services might be , and how variations in who we see as our clients may determine the type of care we give . |
| 30 | It must be emphasised , however , that although the register provides prima facie evidence of who its members are and what their shareholdings are , it provides no evidence at all , either to the company or anyone else , of who the beneficial owners of the shares are . |