Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 2 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 3 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 4 | Wicking of the T-H-R agency and by Colonel Younger of the United States Cavalry , and those bio-implanted replacement lungs are winging their way to a viewer in Phoenix who has asked us , for reasons we fully understand , not to reveal his name . |
| 5 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 6 | The image of God as a cosmic gambler can also be found in Brunain , where a simple peasant and his wife find God to be good doublere , " doubler " , giving them a second beast when they naively give their own cow to the priest who has told them that God repays gifts twofold . |
| 7 | Donna Anna , daughter of the murdered Commendatore , lacks any sense of humour : she is aiming to be a heroine of high drama ; while Donna Elvira , one of Giovanni 's cast-offs , is a genuinely tragic figure : mocked by all and in danger of losing her reason , she remains touchingly faithful to the lover who has abandoned her . |
| 8 | To take a different example you might imagine an adviser who has left herself just enough time to get to a school for a meeting , bombing down the motorway and getting a puncture . |
| 9 | I 'm telling you as a fact that I 'm the only person in this industry who 's done it . |
| 10 | Sarah Wilson meets Kenneth Richey 's lawyer who has devoted his career to defending on Death Row |
| 11 | I seek vengeance on the monster who has betrayed me . |
| 12 | They range from the churchman who has dedicated his life to fighting racism and the coastguard who spends his days battling against the hazards of our seas , to the voluntary hospital worker and tireless parish councillor . |
| 13 | SYLVESTRA le Touzel , best-known perhaps as Fanny Price in the television version of Mansfield Park , is a fine actress who has turned her acute eye and pen to caricaturing her fellow actors . |
| 14 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 15 | Byrne is a fan who has done his homework . |
| 16 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |
| 17 | There is a nice link in this in that this year 's efforts have been started by one of the exam prize winners who has passed his prize back to be donated to Save the Children . |
| 18 | There is no-one here involved with the playing side of the club who has had anything to do with previous Cup exploits , ’ he said . |
| 19 | As for us , we have your story , we have a saint who has made her way back to us by strange ways , and we have those who have been friends to her on that journey , and may well believe , as you believe , that the lady has been in control of her own destiny , and choosing her own friends and her own dependants . |
| 20 | That bloke who keeps pulling his double set of teeth out had pinched the lot . |
| 21 | He is not the kind of bloke who wishes to know his coloured brethren . ’ |
| 22 | There are no nationally agreed guidelines for the appointment of police surgeons : this matter rests entirely on the discretion of the local Chief Constable who has to decide who to appoint from the applicants for the particular post , which is advertised by the police . |
| 23 | CROCKED star Gary Stevens last night blasted the Airdrie hard-man who has put him out for six weeks . |
| 24 | She 's the expert who has shown me how devious the female of the species can be . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 26 | GOTZ Friedrich 's 1977 staging of Der Freischutz , soberly revived at Covent Garden by Wolfgang Bucher , makes a straightforward and unambitious introduction to Weber 's melodious nervy masterpiece about the young huntsman who tries to cheat his way to the head ranger 's job and daughter with magic bullets . |
| 27 | Any member of the council who wishes to inspect our land is welcome to do so and we would be happy to show them the improvements we have made and are continuing to make . |
| 28 | It is not Mordecai who has tricked you . |
| 29 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 30 | The child who likes expressing his ideas in words , but who is not so happy drawing and painting , can be asked to write about an interest . |