Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] who [vb mod] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 2 | If the message contains the word ‘ Secure ’ , that means the words following make up the introductory identification of someone who will contact him and give him orders . |
| 3 | Instead , he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege . |
| 4 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr William Waldegrave , Britain 's cabinet minister in charge of science , has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding ( see page 781 ) . |
| 6 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 7 | Another Halket satire : ‘ A dialogue between the Devil and George II ’ , an imaginary , scurrilous discussion which did nothing for King George 's reputation , so incensed his son , Butcher Cumberland , that he offered £100 reward to anyone who would bring him Halket 's body . |
| 8 | The period opened with the usual resistance from the inhabitants , who dug an open grave for William Fairchild , the surveyor of King 's Sedgemoor , and announced ‘ a reward of a hogshead of cider … to anyone who could catch him ’ . |
| 9 | Nor have I any wish to see him caught by one who would drag him back to the city lights . ’ |