Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring . |
| 2 | As we now contemplate our strategy for the years ahead , let us never forget that they are the people who sit huddled outside , waiting for us to get it right . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 4 | If necessary , Shaw then adds details ( who sued whom ) , and a panel of celebrities is asked who won and why , or who got sent down and for how long . |
| 5 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 6 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 7 | You never had the chance to ask — ; the slaves , the chain gang , the artists who got burned out making entertainment for you and looking real pretty for you , taking Whitey 's junk , the white pigs ’ white junk . |
| 8 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 9 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 10 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 11 | Let us suppose that an action is brought for breach of contract by a party to a contract who is a natural person who has suffered both personal injury and property damage as a result of the breach . |
| 12 | Section 35 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 empowers the courts to require any person who has committed an offence to compensate anyone who has suffered adversely as a result of his crime . |
| 13 | He remains a bystander on the edge of God 's purposes , and one who has suffered grievously that those purposes might go forward . |
| 14 | But victory ran true to racing 's adage ‘ there 's nothing like experience ’ because the winner was ridden by Pat Leech , who has ridden more than 150 winners , while the two market leaders were partnered by riders with less than a handful of winners between them . |
| 15 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 16 | The Vice-President and General Manager is Martin P Nicholson , an Irishman who has paused only in an immaculate career to kiss his native blarney stone . |
| 17 | Anyone who has peered too closely into a cut-throat finch 's nest when the bird is sitting on eggs will have experienced the disturbing feeling that , very suddenly , their eye is far too close to a snake for comfort . |
| 18 | ‘ If frustration level has anything to do with [ creating ghosts ] , then Bird is our man , ’ said Karen Foerstel , who has written extensively on Capitol ghosts . |
| 19 | A clinician who has written extensively on this topic is Anthony , who has also discussed the implied association between psychosis and creativity . |
| 20 | Writer BARBARA CARTLAND — who has written more than 520 books with more than 500 million copies sold — 34th richest with a £40 million fortune . |
| 21 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 22 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 23 | Todd first boxes Scotland 's Stephen Wilson , 20 , who has moved up a weight since winning silver at the 1989 world juniors and an ABA title in 1990 . |
| 24 | Nigel , 27 , succeeds Colin Auton who has moved on after seven years at the hotel . |
| 25 | He takes over from Alloa-based Derek Allison who has moved on to be British national coach . |
| 26 | Receptionist who has moved back to Newcastle following her husband 's transfer from the computer centre to in Durham . |
| 27 | Today I met someone — an Englishman — who has lived here for ages ( apart from the War years , of course ) and he may be able to help me . |
| 28 | There is a man they meet , an American who has lived here many years , they deal through him . |
| 29 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 30 | The vendor is the third generation of the family who has lived there since 1919 , and is understood to have decided to sell rather than continue to face the task of maintaining the estate . |