Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 2 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 3 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 4 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 5 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 6 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 7 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 8 | He was Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; he was Spring-Heel 'd Jack , the Terror of London ; he was Sir Percival Glyde , the Spine-Snapping Baronet ; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor Maria Marten in the Red Barn ; he was Varney the Vampyre , Wagner the Wehr-Wolf , jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde , the Oxton Creeper , the Coughing Horror , the Face at the Window … |
| 9 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 10 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 11 | A farm on the other side of the lane provided fresh eggs , the stench of cow shit , and a rabid mongrel roped to a tree who barked for twenty minutes whenever a car went by . |
| 12 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 13 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 14 | In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord who died for all men . |
| 15 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 16 | LAST OF THE MOHICANS : Rip-roaring yarn with Daniel Day-Lewis as a native who falls for English Rose Madeline Stowe . |
| 17 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 18 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 19 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 20 | The only caller who stayed for any length of time said nothing at all . |
| 21 | The artisans and cottagers continually plied their trades : chandlers making tallow from pig fat ; skinners , cheesemongers , capmakers , blacksmiths , and at night , when the stalls came down , the raw-boned villains of the underworld who scrounged for easy pickings amongst the brothels and stewsides of the Thames . |
| 22 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's a big problem for Girardelli , ’ said Vine as Marc , the big Austrian who skis for little Luxembourg , lost his line and slid off the course . |
| 24 | The dead king was identified with Osiris , but each individual who hoped for eternal resurrection was henceforth identified with Osiris and might place the title " the Osiris " in front of his or her name in funerary inscriptions . |
| 25 | A barrister who applies for any office may reckon as part of his qualification period any time he has spent in practice or in employment as a solicitor . |
| 26 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 27 | You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ? |