Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they know that many regard them as bearded , half-educated lefties , who only teach to fill in the gaps between long holidays in sunnier climes . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 3 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 4 | The only person more surprised than me was Ken , who just had to follow along as best he could . |
| 5 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 6 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 7 | Who just want to take over your mind and not let you think for yourself . |
| 8 | They are pictured with the regional field salesmen who just happened to come in on photo day ! |
| 9 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 10 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 11 | He spoke of ‘ the type of person who always offers to wash up after a party ; the type of person who , winning a prize in a raffle , will give it back to be re-raffled ’ . |
| 12 | A muffled moon could be glimpsed through its broken deck , a pier long closed to those who once sought to find out what it was the butler saw . |
| 13 | The agreement was signed by representatives of the six groups attending who also undertook to carry out the resolutions of the conference . |
| 14 | On the positive side , parental support helps when it is in co-ordination with respect and belief in the coach who really needs to take over the job . |
| 15 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 16 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 17 | Luke , the Siberian Husky , belongs to my friend — a romantic novelist , who sometimes needs to go off alone to research her books . |
| 18 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 19 | This time last year I was sitting with twenty other people in some dull sixth-form room , being told about participles or Corn Laws by someone no one had ever heard of , and here I am , just one year later , on my own in a solidly built house in North Oxford , a cup of coffee on the floor beside me , giving my views on sense-data to a well-known professional philosopher who then has to break off to take a call from the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | Why should they have to facilitate what is , in all its aspects , an anti-social form of life and thus impose a loss on rate and charge payers , who then have to put up with such sites in their neighbourhood ? |
| 21 | Describes , among others , an impoverished frequenter of the Reading Room of the British Museum who pathetically tries to keep up some sort of genteel appearance . |
| 22 | The only two Hong Kong legislators who consistently dare to speak out , Mr Martin Lee and Mr Szeto Wah , have been threatened with expulsion from the committee now drafting China 's post-1997 Basic Law . |
| 23 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 24 | The recent taunts were against the ‘ quack doctors ’ , ‘ faint hearts ’ and ‘ moaning minnies ’ who allegedly wished to give up on the fight for low inflation and a stable currency . |
| 25 | Those who ultimately fail to get out of Hong Kong will do what Hong Kong people have always done . |
| 26 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 27 | We absolutely no , no , you 'll find we wo n't leave this topic cos there 's three people who actually want to come in now and I 'm going to bring them in round the table . |
| 28 | Friends and neighbours saw a conscientious and hard-working mother who never seemed to sit down , and was always on the go , and kept herself to herself . |
| 29 | Then there were also those infuriating guests who never manage to loosen up . |