Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This untypically flashy Icelander , who has lived most of his life in Las Vegas , and worked on Mr Bush 's election campaign , has recently been in charge of polishing the images of Frank Sinatra and Donald Trump , the New York city real estate person . |
| 2 | The Maktoums ' main hope is now In The Wings , who has spent most of the season recuperating from an operation on a chipped knee . |
| 3 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 4 | This theory is largely due to Thomas Gold ( b. 1920 ) , an Austrian-born astronomer who has spent most of his working life in Britain and in the USA . |
| 5 | This might seem a bit rich coming from a man who has spent most of his career luxuriating in material wealth as one of the US 's most enduring entertainers . |
| 6 | He hears from one individual who has spent most of his adult life in prison . |
| 7 | That I am not , is due partly to my dislike of professional boxing and the men who manipulate it for their own ends , and partly to the fact that Lewis is yet another ‘ adopted ’ Englishman , who has spent most of his life in Canada , and won an Olympic medal fighting in their colours . |
| 8 | The initial production planning on Blackeyes was done by Kenith Trodd , who has produced most of Potter 's major work , including Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective . |
| 9 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 10 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 11 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 12 | After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided . |
| 13 | For his son , Rock , who had spent most of his life adoring his father like a god , ‘ it was somewhat like the feeling … it 's late at night and you 're alone on the Tube riding with a bunch of thugs and they get off your car . ’ |
| 14 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |
| 15 | Montgomery had expected an air of authority from this venerable man , who had spent most of his seventy-odd years lecturing students , but Aubrey St John Goth seemed distant , distracted , his grey eyes veiled by a deep sadness . |
| 16 | Sir Charles Arden-Clarke , who had spent most of his career in northern Nigeria , Lugard 's country , was a reliable paternalist . |
| 17 | Another case in which good relationships would have helped was that of an attention seeking woman who had spent most of her life in hostels and was constantly getting struck off general practitioners ' lists . |
| 18 | He predicted the young gipsy would rise to new and great heights now he had a wife beside him — a wife who had spent most of her life in the Wychwood Forest and whose trials had touched the hearts of all those who knew and loved her . |
| 19 | Carey , 55 , who had spent most of his union career as president of the Teamsters ' New York branch , had been elected as president in the government-supervised elections of December 1991 , succeeding William J. McCarthy . |
| 20 | I sincerely hope that you , who have spent most of your life travelling , have a better character than most Englishmen . |