Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off . |
| 2 | Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison . |
| 3 | That 's the proper place to be praying for them who ca n't wait till Sunday . ’ |
| 4 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 5 | Joanna Wood , 48A Pimlico Road , SW1 , is one of those shops that sells charming fripperies , the sort of place where you can be sure of finding the very thing for someone who would prefer to buy their own toaster but who would love to be given a Limoges breakfast set or monogrammed shoe-bag . |
| 6 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 7 | Lay off , and save your preachings for someone who 'll appreciate them . ’ |
| 8 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 9 | If you were able to have an extra space at your table on Christmas Day for someone who might otherwise be on their own that really would be celebrating Christmas ! |
| 10 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 11 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 12 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 13 | ‘ Employers look for someone who will slot into the office culture , ’ says Shirley Coates , managing director of Bridford Career Management . |
| 14 | The process described is common : women who often suffer from low self-esteem , frustrated creativity or an inability to assert themselves can — subconsciously at least — look for someone who will express confidence , arrogance , purposefulness , ambition and success . |
| 15 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 16 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 17 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 18 | Dear John , Make way for someone who can . |
| 19 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're putting on quite a good display for someone who can hold her drink , ’ she heard him say sarcastically from the doorway . |
| 21 | I just have a lot of respect for someone who can pick up a piece of wood or metal and make music out of it . ’ |
| 22 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 23 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 24 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 25 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 26 | He had begun to think of Meh'Lindi as someone who might … |
| 27 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
| 28 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 29 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 30 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |