Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 2 | Similarly , since language is a self-sufficient system , meaning is not determined by the subjective intentions and wishes of its speakers : it is not the speaker who directly imparts meaning to his utterances , but the linguistic system as a whole which produces it . |
| 3 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 4 | Her reflections were interrupted by Dora , whom she had vaguely noticed rummaging in the boot of their car when she arrived and who now came striding towards them . |
| 5 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 6 | Anthony introduced Comfort , who immediately started talking in fluent , fast Italian , which made Julia feel as inadequate and insular as she had ever done at Comfort 's university parties . |
| 7 | Navarro 's participation also marginalized the remaining left-wing guerrilla forces , who reportedly impeded voting in some towns . |
| 8 | Further mechanization will enable farmers to cope with a reduced quantity of labour , but further mechanization will require a finer quality of labour — and it is precisely the highly educated and the highly trained who currently shun working on the land . |
| 9 | When man himself started to make decisions which were to become contributions to the substance of the Created God , there arose individuals who could not accept the decisions which were designated ‘ good ’ by the majority , and who therefore started moving towards behaviour which was specifically harmful to others . |
| 10 | She fills a spot held by the distinguished Early Christian and Byzantine scholar , Margaret Frazer , who recently retired owing to ill health . |
| 11 | Indeed it is hard to identify any individual Burgundian as being arian , except for Gundobad , who seriously considered converting to catholicism , and Sigismund , who did convert and was remembered as a martyr . |