Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 2 | One journalist who persisted on the point was referred to playfully as ‘ a Chartist or a Luddite ’ by one press officer , who added that there was also the argument that 600 Group should worry about staying in business and not about unemployment . |
| 3 | Other winners of the award , sponsored by Reckitt and Colman , included Cherrill Hicks , a freelance journalist who works on The Independent 's health page , for her book Who Cares ; Looking After People at Home . |
| 4 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 5 | There is an old Middle Eastern story about a frog ( in some versions it is a fish ) and a scorpion who meet on the bank of a river that both need to cross . |
| 6 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 7 | ‘ British troops slain on the Somme , ’ shouted out the boy who stood on the corner of Covent Garden waving a paper high above his head . |
| 8 | No lights were on in any of the houses and the only living thing in sight was a brindled cat who froze on the pavement , surveyed the bleak October night , and padded arrogantly across the road . |
| 9 | To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc . |
| 10 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |
| 11 | Even the lady who stood on the corner handing out white feathers gave him an approving nod . |
| 12 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 13 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 14 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 15 | Executive power is formally vested in the British monarch , represented by a Governor-General who acts on the advice of a Council of Ministers . |
| 16 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 17 | But it was a bitter-sweet day for the striker who lives on the road — training with his old Dons ' mates , staying at his mum and dad 's in Derby and arriving in Sheffield just to do the business . |
| 18 | Graham Evans , of Blundellsands , was an apprentice who worked on the Spirit of Merseyside and later served aboard as bosun . |
| 19 | The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development . |
| 20 | He felt like the man in an old music-hall joke who hammers on the dentist 's door with a wet sponge , the need to get in conflicting powerfully with the longing to flee . |
| 21 | One was Paul McGahan , a senior North Harbour player and a former All Black halfback who played on the tours of France and Argentina . |
| 22 | Stark admitted the influence of Scheler , the phenomenologist who wrote on the sociology of knowledge . |
| 23 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 24 | He did n't want a wife who stood on the periphery of his existence , always the foreigner , never involved with Italy . |
| 25 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 26 | She had to be able to liaise with the local authorities , professionals in the social services , and people with specialist knowledge who worked on the Advisory Boards . |
| 27 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 28 | It was here that Arthur fought and killed the giant Ritho , a fierce character who lived on the slopes of the mountain and wore a cloak made from the beards of chiefs he had slain . |
| 29 | Look , here they come : a duchess and her daughter , a London haberdasher who died on the eve of the Civil War , a squire whose ancestors threw people out of their houses to make way for sheep . |
| 30 | At present , Robertson is very excited about a discovery made by Alan Sked , a lecturer at the London School of Economics who sits on the Bruges Group 's academic advisory council — it 's governing body . |