Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 2 | Go to the window shout and make it , make your plight known to your neighbours because normally there 's somebody passing , policeman on his beat or somebody who 'll make your plight known . |
| 3 | but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 4 | But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 5 | It is he or she who will be incurring additional expenses as a result of the accident and whose earning power may have been impaired . |
| 6 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the raid or anyone who might have seen the men stealing the car or abandoning it . |
| 7 | Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have seen these people in Linthorpe Village pubs on Saturday night to contact them on . |
| 8 | The architect and writer Frank Pennink was right when he described it as ‘ an outstanding course where anyone who can play to his handicap is doing well ’ . |
| 9 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 10 | It 's also hard to believe that someone who would use a lap-top computer would forget where he left it . ’ |
| 11 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 12 | But if she thinks it 's worth the risk , then it 's up to you to try and contain that risk — make sure there 's nothing to trip over , and that someone who can react quickly is on hand to give tactful support where necessary . |
| 13 | Evidently he thought that a person can quite properly use the word ‘ here ’ without knowing , either by acquaintance or description , some thing which is what the word means , but that the word ‘ I ’ is different , and therefore that someone who can not , however hard he introspects , discover some thing which is what the word means , should not use it . |
| 14 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 15 | He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit . |
| 16 | Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C … |
| 17 | He was on his way out and he met someone even more inexperienced than him who 'd just come in . |
| 18 | And yet the problems reason hopes to resolve will not go away and we are little wiser in that respect than when Pascal wrote so perceptively : ‘ Man is neither angel nor brute , and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute . ’ |
| 19 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 20 | Moreover , it is difficult to believe that anyone who can be as dull as Hoccleve can , when using literary conventions , could suddenly become as lively as he does by merely adopting a new one : the ‘ autobiographical ’ convention . |
| 21 | Everyone knew that a breaking point had to come ; and everyone who could took extraordinary measures to protect himself . |
| 22 | And I who should have healed it severed it . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't look like someone who could poison what she touched , whatever she might think . |
| 24 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 25 | And someone who wo n't overspend his budget . |
| 26 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 27 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 28 | It had to be someone anonymous , but somebody who would be allowed to speak to the man if he was there , and someone who might conceivably be ringing on a Saturday night . |
| 29 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 30 | He invited a non-native English speaker , one who could cast his net across several disciplines and one who would agree to talk freely from notes rather than the traditional script . |