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 . |