Example sentences of "[noun] who [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Graham was amazed , too , after seeing another high-octane Arsenal performance lack only the finishing touch against a weakened Coventry side who manfully tried to keep pace with the champions . |
| 2 | My wife killed before her time , my son born dead and my only surviving heir a selfish girl who just wants to have fun ! ’ |
| 3 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |
| 4 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 5 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he 's a tough , shrewd character who desperately wants to buy prestige . |
| 7 | His idea wo n't work , says Beowulf , for the pressure on heroes to take blood-revenge is too strong — it seems , though this is speculation from other sources , that Ingeld 's father Fróda was killed by the Danish king who now wants to make alliance with his son . |
| 8 | Roy Harper is one of those cult figures who never seem to lose popularity — and his eccentric and entertaining stage presence explains why . |
| 9 | It was Francois Bergot and Jan Martens who both suggested taking advantage of the gathering together of all the drawings for the book to present as many of them as possible to the public in a splendid exhibition . |
| 10 | Fourteen people attended the first meeting last week but Phyllis Horsley , a member of the Darlington Trust said : ‘ There is room for everyone ; we need more people who can help with conservation work , people who can help record data on local animals and plants , and older people who just want to help raise money . ’ |
| 11 | His new band , Body Count , are a routine hardcore outfit who mostly fail to ignite Ice T's rants . |
| 12 | Many of the minority who reluctantly chose to borrow money did so as preferable to having to spend forty days in Winson Green Gaol like Tom Broadbent , the Birmingham brass-dresser , who in 1899 was committed in default of a small debt to a coal merchant , and died there . |
| 13 | It could also be appropriate for the professional investor who simply wishes to take advantage of cheap borrowing . |
| 14 | Her husband had not realised that she was dying , and the subsequent shock was so great that he became unable to care for his six-year-old daughter who also began to lose weight and perform badly at school . |
| 15 | Eve knew that through these doors next week would come girls who only intended to use university as part of their social life . |
| 16 | But to Sandra and Claire , long standing friends who both manage to exude competence and equanimity from every pore , it was entirely natural . |
| 17 | The major objective of the counsellor , especially the counsellor who actively seeks to combat ageism , is to encourage involvement . |
| 18 | Charlie Chaplin was without doubt a major figure during Hollywood 's inception , a star who stoutly refused to play ball with Senator Joe McCarthy 's communist witch-hunt in the dark days of the Fifties . |
| 19 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |
| 20 | They hope to publish comments of Latin fans including authoress Dame Iris Murdoch , actress Maureen Lipman and writer and broadcaster John Julius Norwich who reluctantly began studying Latin because he had ‘ no option ’ . |