Example sentences of "to a [noun] who " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 HE is romantically linked to a princess who is variously called Daisy , Mushroom and Toadstool in different games . |
| 2 | Their debut album provides a fine introduction to a pair who avoid grand production techniques , preferring clear vocals , a good tune and simple accompaniments . |
| 3 | In short , ‘ Inntrepreneur ’ rents , as determined by the market , are a fair reflection of the substantial commercial opportunities open to a lessee who is running a pub as an individual business . . |
| 4 | A supplier may offer a cash discount to a retailer who settles his account promptly . |
| 5 | Now , suppose a manufacturer of catapults sells some to a wholesaler , who sells some to a retailer who in turn sells one to a young boy . |
| 6 | However , a court might be prepared to accept ( for instance ) that it would be unreasonable for a manufacturer to exclude liability to a retailer who could not exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its customers . |
| 7 | Just as Goscelin claims to have listened to a monk who had known St Wulfsige of Sherborne ( d. 1002 ) , Osbern of Canterbury says that as a boy he heard an account of the translation of the relics of St Ælfheah in 1023 from a monk who was involved in it . |
| 8 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 9 | The writer who seeks to control or dictate the responses of his reader outside the boundaries of the text itself , is comparable to a card-player who gets up periodically from his place , goes round the table to look at his opponent 's hand , and advises him what cards to lay . |
| 10 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 11 | Much later I recited the story of ‘ my day in search of a morgue , to a friend who runs a residential home on the south coast . |
| 12 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 13 | I passed my June copy to a friend who lives in Norfolk feeling sure I would be able to replace it but without success , and I was away on holiday for the August copy . |
| 14 | Alyce Faye , with whom he now lives , sunbathes in the garden and chats to a friend who used to be John 's accountant ( ‘ A Bennite , ’ says John , rather proudly . ) |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose they are nice , ’ Laura commented to a friend who saw some prototype suitcases lying about the château one day , ‘ but they are not my idea ’ . |
| 16 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 17 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 18 | He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
| 20 | Why not pass this letter to a friend who may be interested ? |
| 21 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 22 | The larger , bolder birds such as magpies , crows and jackdaws were searching for food on the fairways — on one occasion a golf ball landed near to a crow who nonchalantly moved to one side to avoid the missile . |
| 23 | What it does n't do is offer an escape route to a Chancellor who can see public borrowing spiralling out of control yet can not afford to increase taxes substantially to keep the public spending deficit under some sort of control . |
| 24 | And what would happen to a rabbit who left the shelter of the holly tree and ran down the path ? |
| 25 | In Malette v. Shulman , 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 a Canadian court upheld an award of $20,000 to a patient who had been given a blood transfusion in order to save her life but against her known wishes . |
| 26 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 27 | There were , of course , grounds for taking it ; they could well argue the impossibility of continuing to give their loyalty and service to a monarch who was creating a totally new situation by failing in her fundamental duty of ruling her people . |
| 28 | No such allowance is paid to a claimant who marries , whatever the circumstances . |
| 29 | So there is none of the relief of a true unburdening , and the discussion of problems that characterises the homecoming of someone to a companion who is close in age as well as relationship . |
| 30 | When Boswell sought to establish a distinction between ‘ the licentiousness of a single woman , and that of a married woman ’ , Johnson intensified his analogy , comparing the loose single woman to a thief , and the randy married woman to a thief who first murders the victim , and says that among women the infection of licentiousness spreads from the single to the married . |