Example sentences of "[art] person [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obviously impossible for the receiver to sue the person who had appointed him , and in any event the company had received indemnities for all costs , including those of the other side if necessary . |
| 2 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |
| 3 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 4 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 5 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 6 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 7 | The correct approach was to ascertain whether the person who had given the land had pointed out clearly what he intended to be done with it . |
| 8 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 9 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 10 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 11 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 12 | Should the patient be the person who had attended to the business and financial side of family life , then there will have to be a reversal of roles ; these items will have to be attended to by a responsible other person , usually the spouse . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Clare was finally able to express her anger clearly to the person who had caused it . |
| 14 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 15 | He could not obtain compensation from the person who had caused the accident and sued his employer for failing to provide insurance or advising him of the need to take out insurance . |
| 16 | This is the stage when the bereaved person often feels that the person who had died is with them in the house , talks to them , appears during the night , etc . |
| 17 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
| 18 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 19 | From the reign of Henry VIII to that of George II it was the practice of the various probate courts to insist that ‘ a true and perfect inventory ’ of the personal estate of the person who had died should be attached to his will or the letters of administration . |
| 20 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 21 | Me , the loner , the person who had rebuffed everything from confirmation onwards , was now being offered the laying-on of hands . |
| 22 | And the person perfecting his plans in Oxford , the person who had taken possession of the red Cavalier , that person had plenty to do , and precious little time in which to do it — to do it in Oxford . |
| 23 | But Morse would never learn — at least not from him — the name of the person who had murdered Theodore Kemp . |
| 24 | ‘ And if I wanted to promote someone , I would choose the person who had worked well in the community . ’ |
| 25 | It had been pawned with a discreet firm and the person who had pawned it was her brother Giorgio . |
| 26 | The intended victim of sorcery could take counter-measures by appealing to a supernatural being , and these counter-measures could in some cases transfer the intended harm to the person who had initiated it . |
| 27 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 28 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
| 29 | And when Laura had contacted the person who 'd written one of the glowing references the woman on the other end of the phone had n't sounded at all surprised . |
| 30 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |