Example sentences of "who have [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the best endeavours of every serious historian who has written about the subject , this myth is still widely believed . |
| 2 | His Formentera representative is Gina Wenham who has lived on the island for 20 years . |
| 3 | General manager Nick Burrows said : ‘ We want people to write a snoring CV supported by evidence from a partner who has lived with the noise . |
| 4 | Mr Calvert , 63 , who has lived in the village for ten years , claimed when the row first surfaced two years ago the vicar was ‘ disturbing God 's peace ’ , and affecting his sleep . |
| 5 | Pensioner Sarah McKeown , who has lived in the area all her life , is settled into a new three-bedroomed house . |
| 6 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
| 7 | He replied , ‘ Like one who has risen in the morning and does not know whether he will be dead in the evening . ’ |
| 8 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting may be or would be embarrassing , damaging or inconvenient to an individual who has featured in the case . |
| 9 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting would be inconvenient , embarrassing or damaging to some individual who has featured in the case . |
| 10 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 11 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 12 | Andrew MacKinlay , the Labour MP who has campaigned on the matter , has highlighted the case of one widow , now aged 98 , who only recently steeled herself to admit to her family that her husband had been executed for cowardice . |
| 13 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's my best performance of the season attitude wise , ’ said Parrott , who has gone off the boil since opening the current campaign with tournament wins in China and Dubai . |
| 15 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 16 | ‘ He is a May 26 foal and I always thought he 'd be a better four-year-old , ’ said Stoute , who has pencilled in the Coronation Cup at Epsom , on June 4 , for the colt . |
| 17 | Even Alan Hansen , who has retired to the TV studios , is a 10-1 shot . |
| 18 | In the Middlesbrough area , Marton Sixth Form College has lost Mr Thomas Hume , who has retired at the end of a 28-year teaching career , and taking early retirement from Nunthorpe School in the summer after 19 years is Mrs Margaret Brown . |
| 19 | A review by one geographer who has contributed to the development and application of indices of soil erodibility ( Bryan , 1978 ) includes the aphorism ( Bryan , 1979 , p. 207 ) : |
| 20 | The commission suggests that anyone over 18 who has contributed to the cost of the property he or she occupies should have to agree to its sale . |
| 21 | Five years later he was judged by the hospital staff and by the Home Secretary , who has to agree to the fitness of certain patients held for indeterminate periods , to be discharged on trial leave . |
| 22 | The role of Dr Runcie , who has wavered in the past , was crucial . |
| 23 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 24 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 25 | A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) . |
| 26 | And who has seen to the place since ? ’ |
| 27 | The saint is the man who has withdrawn from the rough-and-tumble world of everyday living . |
| 28 | Maguire , 21 , who has rocketed to the stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 29 | Yet every anthropologist and ethnologist who has dug below the surface of ancient Australian culture and folklore has found subtle connections with Eastern metaphysics . |
| 30 | Anyone who has to deal with the public or who is in continual contact with other people as part of their job must always be aware that attention to their appearance and personal hygiene is of the utmost importance . |