Example sentences of "[noun] who see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 2 | ‘ In charge of ’ can be proved by the police officer or other witness who saw him near or sat in the vehicle for example . |
| 3 | If both prisoners stay mum , the police have a witness who saw them co-operate on a lesser crime , one that would put them both behind bars for two years . |
| 4 | It was not Marie who saw her . |
| 5 | The brothel keeper had no reason to lie to me , and I 've talked to the other clients who saw her there . ’ |
| 6 | Some of us are reserved good listeners who see our prime function in conversation as encouraging the other person . |
| 7 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 8 | It was , in testimony to his alertness , Cornelius who saw him coming first . |
| 9 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 10 | For weeks his local paper the Westmorland Gazette was full of outraged letters from Sedbergh businessmen who saw their profits threatened by Harding 's opposition to the golf course . |
| 11 | This latter intent is evidenced by the number of constables responsible for crime control in Protestant areas who see their role as also having social-welfare and community service dimensions , as illustrated in the last chapter , and , more significantly , by the fact that there are units in Easton specifically responsible for community policing in this largely Protestant district . |
| 12 | She was past caring who saw her bound up like a chicken , when she felt the blunt tip of his throbbing penis nudge against the portals of her dripping honeypot . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , there was that boy who saw me legs when I fell over one day , ’ said Dolly . |
| 14 | Hilary was a boy who saw himself as a connoisseur of experience . |
| 15 | ‘ In this country you are faced with a stubborn and self-assured lady who sees it as one of her tasks to protect the regime , ’ Mr Mbeki said . |
| 16 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 17 | Some are in the hands of collectors or co-operatives of enthusiasts who see them as relics to cherish and maintain as part of our heritage , but these are in the minority . |
| 18 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 19 | He frightened train crews who saw him walking aimlessly on the railway tracks as if he were a real person . |
| 20 | Perhaps equally , the parent who sees himself or herself as " bad " may seek atonement or solace in becoming the " good " child — and accepting the ministrations of a substitute parent . |
| 21 | This was explicitly recognized by the early twentieth century physiologists who saw their fundamental task as that of discovering how the infinite variety of the perceived world could be reflected in , or reconstructed in , the rather monotonous nervous system . |
| 22 | JORDANIAN hoteliers who saw their business decimated by the Gulf War are now suffering the ultimate irony of relying on Iraqi visitors to bolster their flagging industry . |
| 23 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 24 | The Free Presbyterians can be divided into a very small group of what one man called ‘ the bible college — God bless you brother — every blessing ’ types who remained distant from politics ; the majority who saw themselves as being unionist , but not especially so , who were forced into political activity by the alliance of O'Neillism and the ecumenical movement ; and a small circle of fully politicized ministers . |
| 25 | Writer Tim Hilton , art critic of The Guardian , is a passionate cyclist who saw his first Tour in 1955 and has followed it ever since . |
| 26 | Gay film making has arrived in Cork in earnest , the first Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival being afforded a regal launch in the person of Nell McCafferty who saw it as ‘ a further exploration of our sexuality ’ with the attendant attraction of ‘ adding to the gaiety of the nation ’ . |
| 27 | The appellant was detained by a booking clerk who saw him putting the coins into the machine . |
| 28 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 29 | It is also striking how far he took issue with Western critics of Ceauşescu 's Romania who saw it as a police-state pure and simple . |
| 30 | What is to be avoided is the point-scoring conflict that develops between groups who see their relative success and status vis-a-vis their neighbours as being more important than the pursuit of the common good . |