Example sentences of "[noun] who [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 2 | FLYPAST IS OFFERING THREE TRIAL FLIGHT LESSONS IN THE ANDREW EDIE T-6 TO THE LUCKY READERS WHO SUCCESSFULLY ENTER OUR COMPETITION . |
| 3 | Some of the objets d'art were bought on her orders , at home and abroad ; others she prised out of rich Iranians who often found her acquisitiveness on behalf of the country irksome but impossible to resist . |
| 4 | Though he published little under his sole name , the best testimony to his erudition is to be found in the prefaces of numerous books on Mozart by both English and foreign authors who readily acknowledged his guidance . |
| 5 | Ballymoney equalised just two minutes later when Danny Graham slid the ball to the unmarked Michael Neill who then drilled his shot into the roof of the Cookstown net . |
| 6 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 7 | AN UNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER . |
| 8 | Similarly another teacher felt that she should give firm scolding to an extremely active young boy who continually left his place during story time . |
| 9 | This is particularly true of Gertrude who only wants her son to be happy , but her cheerfulness and pleadings with Hamlet only make the situation worse . |
| 10 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 11 | Balbinder was 3 years old when I first started visiting the house , a very sociable child who eagerly awaited my arrival and the chance to play with the bag of toys I always brought with me . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court charged Cerda himself with ‘ lack of discipline ’ , suspended him on half pay for two months , and replaced him by another judge who dutifully closed his case . |
| 13 | Dawn was an attractive , lively girl who thoroughly enjoyed her work as a bank clerk , and whose social life centred on her favourite sports , hockey and tennis . |
| 14 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |
| 15 | I think that what happened was that a lot of traditional union members , that is , the white , heterosexual male stewards who normally formed its backbone , for once took a back-seat , and allowed us to get on with it — to organize in our own way which we did . |
| 16 | The Regulations establish a structured approach which will be familiar to many employers who already take their approach to health and safety seriously . |
| 17 | Between 1903 and 1921 , when the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight closed , 98 per cent of the cadets were outfitted by Gieves who then continued their service to Dartmouth cadets . |
| 18 | No major incidents to report , except for a kamikaze lorry driver who almost bought our charity ride and our lives to a swift halt in Walsall . |
| 19 | That afternoon she sought out his housemaster , a fresh-faced biology PhD who habitually passed his free-time assembling , examining and cataloguing slides of plankton species from the Moray Firth . |
| 20 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 21 | ( The top prize in this group went to a writer who also started his career in these pages , Duncan Campbell , who now regales readers of another weekly with stories of government intrigue that clearly appeal to competition judges more than do articles on technology . ) |
| 22 | It is no secret that Keynes was a highly intuitive thinker who often changed his mind : in 1930 he defended the gold standard , which he had previously attacked , and in 1931 he abandoned the principle of free trade , which he had previously upheld . |
| 23 | In connection with speaker 4 , it is interesting that those in the black group who correctly guessed his ethnicity did so with markedly less confidence than the average ( mean confidence 1.7 ) . |
| 24 | Linda Kitchen excelled as the housekeeper who fails to marry her master , Peter Savidge as the dogged servant of the heroine who finally gets his girl . |
| 25 | The squadron also flew the Iraq Levies , A sort of RAF Regiment of the day , they were mainly Kurds who came from the far north of Iraq excellent soldiers but poor airmen who generally laid their breakfast on the cabin floor whilst we were taxying , to take-off . |
| 26 | Every day the London Evening Standard carried two or three small classified advertisements headed LOANS from lenders who only gave their telephone numbers , viz : |
| 27 | He is the person in direct contact with the real world of dirty rivers , the first stage decision-maker who normally controls his supervisor 's access to ‘ problems ’ and ‘ troublesome ’ incidents : ‘ If we do n't mention the fact to anyone higher-up , no-one ever knows . |
| 28 | Suzanne , who left school in July , is clinging to life in the burns unit at Withington Hospital after being stripped , beaten and set on fire by captors who also shaved her head . |
| 29 | A central object of the new Institute was to train these specialists in the ‘ sanction office ’ , keep them up to date with legislation and accounting techniques and make credit managers as much a part of a trading company 's marketing operation as sales managers who already had their association . |
| 30 | Men confused by some of the changes in women 's own expectations of marriage have found it hard to adjust to a wife who now expects her husband to be a thoughtful and technically competent lover , a housefather and a co-counsellor . |