Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works . |
| 2 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 3 | I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company . |
| 4 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 5 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 6 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 7 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 8 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 9 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 10 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |
| 11 | On the other hand , Clare was finally able to express her anger clearly to the person who had caused it . |
| 12 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 13 | He could not obtain compensation from the person who had caused the accident and sued his employer for failing to provide insurance or advising him of the need to take out insurance . |
| 14 | Should the patient be the person who had attended to the business and financial side of family life , then there will have to be a reversal of roles ; these items will have to be attended to by a responsible other person , usually the spouse . |
| 15 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 16 | I thought that he lacked confidence , that for a person who had achieved what he had the composure was n't there . |
| 17 | It was obviously impossible for the receiver to sue the person who had appointed him , and in any event the company had received indemnities for all costs , including those of the other side if necessary . |
| 18 | The correct approach was to ascertain whether the person who had given the land had pointed out clearly what he intended to be done with it . |
| 19 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 20 | There , I myself had been a giant , an important person who had become famous for helping the people of that small country . |
| 21 | The chairman historically was a person who had served on the tribunal as an ordinary member for some time . |
| 22 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 23 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 24 | To prove whether a place is ‘ public ’ could necessitate taking a statement from a person who had authorised access to a normally private place ; enquiring about and keeping observations on the place to show actual usage ; or describing any permanent or temporary signs that relate to who had access . |
| 25 | The police were making enquiries and would be pleased to hear from any person who had seen the victim on the night he was murdered . |
| 26 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 27 | So far as the latter issue was concerned , to succeed the applicant had to show that the decision was ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 28 | " It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it . " " |
| 29 | ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it : ’ |
| 30 | One question which was raised was whether the term illegal entrant could cover a person who had obtained leave to enter by deception or fraud , as well as a person who had entered by clandestine means . |