Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small girl , acting on instructions from her parents , approaches the old couple 's table and with a shy smile offers one end of a Christmas cracker to the old man , who snatches it from her grasp and stuffs it into his pocket . |
| 2 | I am delighted to welcome John Clist who joins us from Water & Ventilation to manage this new area of our business . |
| 3 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
| 4 | There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into . |
| 5 | The customer who takes them from the shelf therefore does not accept an offer . |
| 6 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |