Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new band , Body Count , are a routine hardcore outfit who mostly fail to ignite Ice T's rants . |
| 2 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 3 | Eve knew that through these doors next week would come girls who only intended to use university as part of their social life . |
| 4 | My wife killed before her time , my son born dead and my only surviving heir a selfish girl who just wants to have fun ! ’ |
| 5 | Fourteen people attended the first meeting last week but Phyllis Horsley , a member of the Darlington Trust said : ‘ There is room for everyone ; we need more people who can help with conservation work , people who can help record data on local animals and plants , and older people who just want to help raise money . ’ |
| 6 | The road will open the forest to settlers , who elsewhere have cleared forest for cattle , overhunted and introduced alcohol and diseases which can not be tolerated by forest people . |
| 7 | ‘ I think he 's a tough , shrewd character who desperately wants to buy prestige . |
| 8 | IF there is anyone out there who still thinks drinking wine is snobby , you 're way out of touch . |
| 9 | There was another problem with some of the firm political allies such as Lambeth , Brent , Haringey and Hackney , who still tended to leave investment decisions to their advisers : NoS had to teach them what to do . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was fortunate that at that time he discovered girls , and a year later met the Dawsons , who always seemed to have time to stop and gossip with him . |
| 11 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 12 | Her husband had not realised that she was dying , and the subsequent shock was so great that he became unable to care for his six-year-old daughter who also began to lose weight and perform badly at school . |
| 13 | For example , this group included a county authority with an establishment of 187 who specifically allocated £8,100 to training and who also expected to have access to a further estimated £2,000 from a Central Training Fund , for special training projects . |
| 14 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 15 | His only child was an infant daughter but he also had two adult brothers , William and Ademar , who clearly expected to obtain possession of the county and be the guardians of their niece . |
| 16 | Charlie Chaplin was without doubt a major figure during Hollywood 's inception , a star who stoutly refused to play ball with Senator Joe McCarthy 's communist witch-hunt in the dark days of the Fifties . |
| 17 | It was Francois Bergot and Jan Martens who both suggested taking advantage of the gathering together of all the drawings for the book to present as many of them as possible to the public in a splendid exhibition . |
| 18 | But to Sandra and Claire , long standing friends who both manage to exude competence and equanimity from every pore , it was entirely natural . |
| 19 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 20 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |
| 21 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 22 | The appearance of this list marks the transfer of hectic activity , at least for a time , from within the SOED , where the specifications are drawn up , to those institutions and individuals interested in ‘ winning ’ the research contracts advertised , who now have to notify interest and submit proposals for carrying out the work . |
| 23 | His idea wo n't work , says Beowulf , for the pressure on heroes to take blood-revenge is too strong — it seems , though this is speculation from other sources , that Ingeld 's father Fróda was killed by the Danish king who now wants to make alliance with his son . |
| 24 | But those who really wish to curry favour with Mad Carew can sponsor a five-course dinner plus wine for two for £70 and get a generous mention on this page . |
| 25 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |
| 26 | Haskett Smith had climbed the Needle and elsewhere at a respectable enough standard , but it was Godfrey Solly — a Go-fearing solicitor who became both mayor and a freeman of Birkenhead — who really started injecting iron into the soul of climbing that cold spring day on May 15 , 1882 . |
| 27 | Similarly , if social representation theorists stress anchoring one-sidedly , they will find themselves describing the ways in which individuals anchor themselves to social knowledge : the thinking individual will be perceived as someone who unthinkingly seeks to avoid novelty by automatically categorizing fresh information in terms of familiar schemata . |
| 28 | It could also be appropriate for the professional investor who simply wishes to take advantage of cheap borrowing . |
| 29 | George Graham was amazed , too , after seeing another high-octane Arsenal performance lack only the finishing touch against a weakened Coventry side who manfully tried to keep pace with the champions . |
| 30 | Who then bother to video record it ? |