Example sentences of "who [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say it is the form assumed by the GHOST of a girl disappointed in love , who fruitlessly searches for her sweetheart , a fisherman who was drowned . |
| 2 | These studies show us that many of the families who successfully parent hard to place children are not conventional , middle-class , two-child families . |
| 3 | Cork hit the post in a desperate finish , but Quakers were caught on the break with only two minutes left when Warren Joyce broke down the right and crossed perfectly for the unmarked Jepson , who only minutes before had a goal ruled out for offside , to grab his second from close range . |
| 4 | British bankers , who only months ago felt locked into problem property loans , now see a bit of sky as the prison door creaks open . |
| 5 | He was only 21 when he answered the call : a young man from a comfortable background who only months earlier had taken an interest in politics for the first time . |
| 6 | You have n't developed the icy crust a beautiful woman who daily battles off the advances of adolescent boys would have . ’ |
| 7 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 8 | Now in this area there are lots of farms — some large , very efficiently run , like businesses , and some small , struggling ones who naturally jib at paying large veterinary bills . |
| 9 | She was used to answering occasional questions about the child , who perhaps Jonquil did not really think existed after all . |
| 10 | The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose . |
| 11 | The barn had been rented by the men , who just days earlier had towed this rubber dinghy to Holland . |
| 12 | and people who just people |
| 13 | ACTRESS Minnie Driver , who tonight stars with Bill Paterson and Sinead Cusack in Channel 4 's premiere of the film God On The Rocks , has flown off to see in 1993 in New York . |
| 14 | Who exactly Kristeva means becomes even less clear as she adds : ‘ Let us recall the fascist or social-fascist homosexual community ( and all homosexual communities for whom there is no ‘ other race' ’ ) , and the fact that it is inevitably flanked by a community of viragos who have forgotten the war of the sexes and identity with the paternal Word or its serpent . ’ |
| 15 | It is not designed to undermine the Caravan Sites Act 1968 , which requires local authorities to provide official gipsy sites for those who normally resort to the area . |
| 16 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 17 | The second regards the state as an autonomous actor , not controlled from outside by anyone , but instead responding chiefly or solely to the preferences of the administrative and governing elites who directly staff its institutions . |
| 18 | It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim 's past . |
| 19 | An example of this is found in , in a recent book by Richard Dawkins , where , and here I quote Dawkins , Dawkins says Lamarckians are traditionally fond of calluses , that is you know , erm , hardened skin , thickened skin , like on the sole of your feet , and he contrasts these Lamarckians who like callouses , with the Darwinian , who he says has a ready answer , in terms of natural selection . |
| 20 | He is the prototype of the historian who never marvels , just as Herodotus is the prototype of the historian who always marvels . |
| 21 | Sixty-eight bottles of malt and brandy on a Welsh dresser — not bad for a man who hardly drinks . |
| 22 | ‘ I would still prefer her to be a doctor or an engineer , ’ sighs Safiqua , who is the one who usually fields family criticism . |
| 23 | There are many people now , by no means all scientists , who habitually talk of the parameters of a situation rather than describe what is happening , of infrastructural problems when the trains are late , of the sexually dimorphic aspect of Homo sapiens when they mean that men are generally larger than women . |
| 24 | One is the Prime Minister , who now bills and coos where she used to bellow . |
| 25 | The balance of power on Gloucester City Council is held by a former Tory councillor who now votes as an independent . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes but he 's g-g-going to C-c-cambridge and he 's the only person who really c-c-c-ares about me . ’ |
| 27 | Most significantly , the team is without its original inspirational manager , Peter Mandelson , who as Labour 's communications head was widely credited with positively machiavellian skills . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's very much a driver 's car — sporty , yet comfortable , ’ says Chris , who often covers 400–500 miles at a go . |
| 29 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 30 | Despite statistics which reveal a reducing young population , only a very few employees will accept 40s and they are rare indeed who even interview 50s . |