Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
| 2 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 3 | ‘ You engaged ? ’ said an American soldier who asked me to dance . |
| 4 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 5 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 6 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 7 | Under its terms any soldier who wanted one was offered a free passage to France . |
| 8 | Part of today 's cargo was assembled some weeks ago by Lance Corporal Gary Manning … a soldier who lost his life in the crash in Scotland . |
| 9 | A soldier who risked his life to save children wounded in a mortar attack in Bosnia has received his MBE from the Queen . |
| 10 | Here , Drachenfels incarcerated a courtesan who displeased him , and inflicted a dreadful curse on her . |
| 11 | Enjoy a ride in a cart , pulled by Peter the shire horse who spends his days in a stable at Llanthony Yard . |
| 12 | He plucked an apple from his pocket , God knows where he got it from , and gave it to the horse who munched it greedily . |
| 13 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |
| 14 | An FBI spokesman said Koresh , 33 , the curly-haired former musician who says he is Jesus Christ , was still inside his fortified farm complex near Waco in Texas . |
| 15 | Bicester 's opponents are Bradford Salem , the side who beat them in the final last year . |
| 16 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 17 | Ships with Wings ( 1941 ) , for example , tells the improbable story of a flyer who loses his commission after an attempt to impress the admiral 's daughter leads to the death of her brother . |
| 18 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 19 | What would you say about yourself , supposing that you write as an objective outsider who knows you well ? |
| 20 | A MAN convicted of murder who claims he was framed by the police to cover up their guilt was granted a retrial by the English Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 21 | The band was a right dog 's breakfast , with no bass player , an over-enthusiastic banjoist and a jealous pianist who thought he was being diddled out of his fair share of solos . |
| 22 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 23 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 24 | The diver who found her body — John Farrar — broke a 23-year silence to claim that Mary Jo Kopechne was kept alive in an air pocket inside the senator 's car . |
| 25 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 26 | Imagine a scientist in the distant future who knows everything about the mechanism and neurology of vision , but who is blind from birth . |
| 27 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 28 | Entries which are read from the Working-Set for update are flagged as being on-loan and belonging to the lexicographer who obtained it . |
| 29 | Rabin faced angry criticism from settlers in the Golan who condemned his apparent willingness to trade the territory for a peace treaty . |
| 30 | Whither now , at sixty-five , with an agent who sends me postcards from abroad as conscience sops , but never telephones because what work is there for such a one as I ( or is it me ) ? |