Example sentences of "who [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people .
2 Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 .
3 The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything .
4 ‘ This is Hills Brothers 50–50 , 50 per cent caffeine , for people who ca n't make up their minds , ’ he says , rinsing out a couple of mugs .
5 The mad tinpot tyrant King Peter ( Gerrard McArthur ) — who ca n't pull up his own trousers — presides over the play from a gold-plated lavatory worthy of Ubu Roi .
6 What point has an ethical directive to pursue the general happiness addressed to beings who will necessarily seek only their own ?
7 ‘ It 's that little minx of mine who wo n't make up her mind to settle down . ’
8 A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient .
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