Example sentences of "to [pron] who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not need to send your releases to everyone who might be interested if this is likely to delay getting them into the post ; that can always be done the next morning . |
| 2 | The benefits would accrue to everyone who would suffer the effects of flooding . |
| 3 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 4 | Even those of us who are keen to return the residents to London can not turn the clock back to those days , but I recommend Tower House to someone who would like to see Malmesbury go more gently into the future . |
| 5 | They were offering free accommodation and food to someone who would do what they described as a little gentle housework . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the duke might give the post to someone who would take it in order to oblige the town council of Glasgow , perhaps even a member of that council , or one of the town 's lawyers . |
| 7 | This was life : going to bet with a man twice as old as yourself who was married to someone who would n't divorce him . |
| 8 | He 'd not leave it to someone who would turn it over . |
| 9 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
| 10 | The local sailors are the people who probably know the conditions best , so it is worthwhile speaking to someone who can point out the idiosyncrasies of the location . |
| 11 | → If your letter is serious , I am in no position to offer advice , since you really should see your doctor and ask him to refer you to someone who can help . |
| 12 | The professional here is in danger of becoming a go-between in that parents may say , ‘ If you ca n't help perhaps you will refer us to someone who can ! ’ |
| 13 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 14 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 15 | It 's not always easy for you to talk your problems through , but if there 's something bothering you , it might be a good idea to open up to someone who can help . |
| 16 | Some people will wish to enquire in person and to speak to someone who can answer their questions . |
| 17 | Your GP and your health visitor are sources of help , and can arrange suitable treatment , or refer you to someone who can help you . |
| 18 | He gets cross and goes to someone who can . |
| 19 | He also sold up and left because the only alternative in these miserable circumstances is to spend the rest of your life living next door to someone who will never speak to you again . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 21 | PC SASPAC is therefore not useful to someone who will want to study low-level data for a large number of counties , though it is suitable for someone who is only interested in one or two and not fond of computers ! |
| 22 | he 's a traditionalist … and wants what is one of Britain 's greatest stately homes to go to someone who will look after it . |
| 23 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 24 | Then he 'd take it to someone who could cut er a key er so he could open the up the granary the late in in the middle of the night , when everybody were asleep , and steal oats for the horses . |
| 25 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 26 | The other thing that tends to throw people the first time they every do ad advocacy is that you 're going to talk to somebody who will not talk to you , who will not s possibly even smile at you , who wo n't give you the usual feedback that we 're u that we 're used to when we 're talking to someone . |
| 27 | If you will not listen , Edward , take me to somebody who will ! ’ |
| 28 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 29 | Which ones would you recommend to somebody who 'd never read any before ? |
| 30 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |