Example sentences of "[noun sg] who takes " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 2 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 3 | Despite the ultimate in Michelin -starred success , Bernard Loiseau is not a chef who takes himself too seriously , discovers Roy Hayter |
| 4 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
| 5 | TENSE , WHITE-knuckle narco drama starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a rookie cop and Jason Patric as the seasoned , streetwise superior who takes her under his wing and into a maelstrom of danger and addiction . |
| 6 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 7 | Heathen savages are unlikely to belong to any church and even if they did there 's no blessing for a fool who takes his own life . ’ |
| 8 | She is a big lady who takes a lot of space with her personality and conviviality . |
| 9 | DUCHESS ‘ A LOVELY LADY WHO TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF INTEREST IN PEOPLE ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She is a lovely lady who takes a great interest in people , ’ said Miss George . |
| 11 | Debbie said : ‘ She is a lovely lady who takes a great interest in people . |
| 12 | The chances are that the felon who takes your car , raids your house , or robs you in the street will be no older than 15 , the national peak age for Britain 's criminal underclass . |
| 13 | When the string of horses goes out for exercise who takes leads er , leads them out ? |
| 14 | Mr Winchester predictably proves his case for part of the Pacific rim , from Japan round to California , but not for the whole circumference — and certainly not for the islands dotted in the Basin , despite the charming Western Samoan girl who takes his bags at Los Angeles airport and quotes Robert Louis Stevenson to him . |
| 15 | More recently , in November 1982 BBC2 showed the Alan Bennett play ‘ Our Winnie ’ , a story about a mother of a mentally handicapped teenage girl who takes her daughter to a cemetery to visit the grave of her husband . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'll drag her round everywhere for a time , ’ said Beuno , ‘ and then he 'll get sick of her , or find some other girl who takes his fancy . |
| 17 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |
| 18 | I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly , such an approach will prejudice any buyer who takes delivery before concluding the contract of supply . |
| 20 | There is only one student-name who takes module 2c . |
| 21 | Well that th this is why I put the memo that if it 's rejected by the tractor driver who takes that trailer out , |
| 22 | ‘ And I , ’ Caroline said with conviction , ‘ am seeing no one but the cab driver who takes me home . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me . |
| 24 | Out goes the Chingford Skinhead — who has a tiresome tendency to bang on about politics — and in comes a writer who takes a broader swipe , Tom Utley . |
| 25 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 26 | He has denied he is on the verge of quitting — ‘ Im suprised if people thought I am the sort who takes my bat and ball home if I do nt get my way ’ . |
| 27 | Mist and fog , snow , spring rain , and summer heat are all attractive and beautiful to the walker who takes the time to look . |
| 28 | SISTER ACT : Farce starring Whoopi Goldberg as a nightclub singer who takes refuge in a convent after witnessing a murder . |
| 29 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 30 | Why should an Englishman who takes rugby as seriously be any different ? |