Example sentences of "who [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And many whispered of witchcraft ; and some , in very low voices and in trusted company , said that the judgment of God was sometimes miscalled the malice of the devil , by those who must pass off their devil as God . |
| 2 | When children do arrive , it is their parents , not their grandparents , who should decide how they are to be brought up . |
| 3 | The dead had children who might carry on their work . |
| 4 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 5 | A few tears were rolling down her worn cheeks , partly in memory of her dead brother no doubt , and partly out of self-pity and fear of the ‘ authorities ’ who might take away her unexpected and much-needed windfall . |
| 6 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 7 | A MOTHER of four who could afford only one present for each of her children and nothing for herself has won £660,000 . |
| 8 | There was only one person in a studio of over eighty people who could fill out her dress . |
| 9 | In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’ |
| 10 | At 09.35 we had a cup of coffee on Hayward 's Heath station , where we met a member of the Bluebell Railway who could see where we were going from our BCRS members . |
| 11 | This was a new Joan : another of these modern women with their new language and new dreams who could follow where she had led , if she were generous enough to let them fight their own battles . |
| 12 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 13 | He 's a gentle sweet old-fashioned thing who 'd do almost anything for me and I 'm devoted to him . |
| 14 | ‘ You know perfectly well that there are scores of women who would do literally anything for a night out , or in , with you . ’ |
| 15 | The undertaker was Mr Alan Anderson from the firm of Raines , joiners of Mickleton , who would carry out his duties with great delicacy , sympathy and understanding . |
| 16 | IT would be a nasty fellow who would kick away someone 's crutch . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments , possum , but I do n't . |
| 18 | Then there was a butcher , minus several bits of fingers , who would hold up his hand and joke , |
| 19 | He cuts an enigmatic and sympathetic figure : a recluse who would go around his palace incognito dressed as a groom ; a man who had his future foretold by Nostradamus ; who employed the English occultists , Dee and Kelley ; who dabbled in magic and yet was one of the greatest patrons of the Renaissance in Europe . |
| 20 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 21 | For the first two days of the four-day event each professional would be partnered by an amateur , who would play off his club handicap . |
| 22 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 23 | Unkind loyalists mocked him as ‘ not so much of a stalking horse as a stalking donkey ’ who would get only his own vote . |
| 24 | 33 , married to a long-distance lorry driver , twins , worked mornings in a local cafe , probably the only member of the group who would define both her family history and her own current social position as unequivocally ‘ working class ’ . |
| 25 | But who would there be to speak for me , who would take up my case ? |
| 26 | ‘ Who would have though there was so much sapient pearwood in the whole of the disc ? ’ he said . |
| 27 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 28 | He liked to tell anyone who would listen where he was going and what he was doing , and so my mother found his silences ominously strange . |
| 29 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 30 | ‘ It remains to be seen whether or not there will be disciples who will carry on his work of popularizing football , making it attractive to the shilling-paying public , ’ commented The Times in its obituary . |