Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 2 | FACT TWO is that soap stars like Ian Smith , who played Harry , and Anne Charleson , who plays his rasping-voiced widow , can throw in some real acting when it matters . |
| 3 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 4 | If it 's not one who supplies my regular retailer I wo n't buy the fish . |
| 5 | He says to himself , ‘ Thank goodness we have here a writer who understands our secret feelings . ’ |
| 6 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 7 | Moving with the easy gliding movement that is second nature Liessa sets off towards her own dragon , Laolith , who turns his great horsey head towards her . |
| 8 | Is there anybody who needs anything other than a piano to do their scale for an A minor key i.e. Tuesday 's homework . |
| 9 | It is he , and Ebrahim Patel , the former President for 13 years of the now defunct SARU , who heads their combined organisation , SARFU . |
| 10 | go along and buy a ticket from a tout … or even off another Leeds supporter who has one spare . |
| 11 | go along and buy a ticket from a tout … or even off another Leeds supporter who has one spare . |
| 12 | Mind you , I do have a relative who has one tried and tested way of getting rid of his junk mail . |
| 13 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 14 | It treats the elderly relative like a stray domestic animal , to be ‘ looked after ’ rather than ‘ cared for ’ , and ‘ offered a home ’ rather than a share in the life of the family , as someone who has something important to contribute . |
| 15 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 16 | By this rule a solicitor may not share or agree to share his fees with any person except : ( 1 ) another solicitor ; ( 2 ) a lawyer qualified in some foreign jurisdiction who has his principal office in that jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) the solicitor 's bona fide employee , but not in circumstances which would create a partnership with a non-solicitor ; ( 4 ) a retired partner or the dependants of a retired or deceased partner . |
| 17 | FAMILY EDWARD SCISSORHANDS , one of 1992 's most entertaining videos , is the bittersweet tale of artificially created boy ( Johnny Depp ) with scissors as fingers who joins your average American household . |
| 18 | I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded . |
| 19 | The Staff Changes Supplement accompanying this issue of the Newsheet is distributed on the basis of one per branch representative who holds it available for inspection by all members . |
| 20 | Under the Act the citizen is protected from arbitrary and oppressive harassment by the establishment of a special procedure for obtaining what is called ‘ special procedure material ’ , defined , in broad terms , as material which is in the possession of a person who holds it subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 21 | I am now trying , in vain , to uuencode the files so that I can send them to anyone who wants them thro' mail . |
| 22 | Basson , who owes his unusual first name to a famous Boer army general , had three birdies and a superb eagle 3 at the long tenth , where he finished three feet from the flag with his 7-iron approach shot . |
| 23 | Andy Till , who defends his British light-middleweight title against Tony Collins at York Hall , Bethnal Green tonight , also failed to show at his same-venue news conference . |
| 24 | Today he is a professor of physics at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) in Provo Utah , is a world authority on the experimental investigations of muon catalysed fusion , and is a quietly spoken contemplative man with a dry sense of humour who describes his fair slightly greying hair as ‘ palladium blond ’ . |
| 25 | The rise of MainMan is also documented by Leee Black Childers who describes his horrendous journey with David across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express . |
| 26 | The only factor they still ca n't fathom out is the man who drives … who pilots their flying machine … |
| 27 | The lyric poet ( in general ) is a composer first and foremost and , as such , a Dionysiac artist who surrenders his egoistic subjectivity to identify himself with the true metaphysical reality and reflect it in music . |
| 28 | Not for anyone who uses His holy name for their own ends . |
| 29 | … apart from the 65-year-old minder who washes his red undies |
| 30 | This particular paragraph is written by one who realises its frequent , unprecedented beauty , but is somehow repelled by the bodilessness of it . |