Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile police have issued a videofit picture of a youth who indecently assaulted five women in North Wiltshire … |
| 2 | In particular , he was keen to be among the extras who despairingly crowded the rail as the ship went down — keen , you could say , to undergo in fiction an alternative version of history . |
| 3 | The cast of characters is evidence enough of the approach : a fashionable young baronet intended by his ambitious politician uncle to marry the Princess of Lystria ; an exiled king running a fashionable London restaurant ; two pretty dancers , one royal and one plebeian ; a curate on holiday who strikingly resembles the baronet — with such components , the square dance performed through Central Europe is both neat and exciting . |
| 4 | But in the middle are a group of ‘ innovators ’ who effectively abolish the underlying unit trust charges and instead impose a smaller initial charge which is coupled to a sliding scale of exit charges on the PEP , which disappear altogether after three years . |
| 5 | in 1938 for a thesis on eighteenth-century English political history ; third , as a tutorial fellow ( 1945 ) who effectively combined a heavy teaching programme with research ; fourth , as senior tutor ( 1946–53 ) , a long period which greatly widened his experience ; and , finally , as an outstanding master from 1957 until his death . |
| 6 | Yet by the time the invasion neared he was one of the inner-most group of five Ministers — with Eden , Lloyd , Macmillan and Head [ who had replaced Monckton as Minister of Defence ] ( plus Mountbatten , the Chief of Staff ) — who effectively took the decision to issue an ultimatum to Egypt and Israel . |
| 7 | Russell Reynolds suffered another knock with the arrival of Windle priem at Korn/Ferry , who effectively took much of the firm 's vital financial services business in New York in the late 1970s ; but they recovered as a result of the build-up of their overseas branches , and several successful big name searches . |
| 8 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 9 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 10 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who effectively handed Brian Talbot his P45 by cracking three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 11 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 12 | THE Mirror is not about to be sold , the man who effectively controls the Mirror Group said yesterday . |
| 13 | Galloway was actively involved in the management of the business while it was expanding rapidly , but after it was formed into a limited company under the name of Galloway Ltd. in 1889 it was Charles John , the chairman and managing director , who effectively held the reins . |
| 14 | After 1911 Manchuria fell under the domination of the warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who effectively controlled the territory until 1928 . |
| 15 | The powerful Yang brothers ( President Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing ) , who effectively controlled the People 's Liberation Army , initiated a major military reshuffle in April and May 1990 , affecting six of China 's seven military regions . |
| 16 | We talked of the tremendous impression that our century 's two great conflicts had made upon Finzi , a widely-read intellectual , who paradoxically shunned the public life of the composer , finding his personal outlet in terms of an insular , and yet highly individual musical style . |
| 17 | ‘ And who unkindly told her the truth ? ’ |
| 18 | As well as being deficient in mass support , the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves . |
| 19 | Imelda , who vigorously protested her innocence of all crimes , continued to suggest that she wished to return to her homeland in order to honour her husband 's dying wish by interring his body in the Philippines . |
| 20 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 21 | Here is a young man of twenty-three , second mate of the Patna , who secretly hopes that his life of efficiency will become romantic : |
| 22 | The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not marry a man who secretly despises me . |
| 24 | Girls who secretly knew that they wanted a baby , or who may have been trying to have one , feel pleased and excited . |
| 25 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 26 | LORD Young , the former Trade Secretary , who secretly authorised the £38 million ‘ sweeteners ’ paid to British Aerospace to buy Rover , last night launched a strong defence of the deal . |
| 27 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 28 | Who to buy it for : intellectuals who secretly read thrillers |
| 29 | He raised his hand as if to strike Frankie , who instinctively recoiled into the rough safety of his nanny s overcoat . |
| 30 | But amongst the fakes , obsessives and lunatics , was there perhaps a man who instinctively knew the route to the Imajica ? |