Example sentences of "who [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geldof , who offers a mix of interviews , showbiz and fashion , hailed it ‘ a success ’ — even though his name was spelt ‘ Geldorf ’ on a trailer . |
| 2 | This principle has been extended so that a person who books a holiday on behalf of others , e.g. a husband booking on behalf of himself his wife and children , may obtain damages not only for his own disappointment etc. but also for the disappointment sustained by his wife and children . |
| 3 | Following Harris ( 1975 ) 62 Cr App R 28 ( CA ) , a person who books a room at an hotel implies that he has money to pay . |
| 4 | Donald Stewart owns three guns ’ — Menzies spoke in a pressing whisper — ‘ there were spears there , and pikes — ‘ Who wins a battle — professionals or enthusiasts ? ’ |
| 5 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 6 | The comedy drama , called Henri , is about the adventures of a brilliant young accordion player from a small rural town who wins a place at a Belfast music school . |
| 7 | The winner of the Black Swan 10th Anniversary Quiz is Sue Kimber of Books Etc , Victoria , who wins a stay in Stratford-upon-Avon for two , plus tickets to a Shakespeare play and a meal afterwards . |
| 8 | Wayans is Johnny Stewart , a Chicago wide boy from the wrong side of the tracks who ekes a living by executing scams on unsuspecting white folks with his hyper-active bro Seymour , one Marlon Wayans . |
| 9 | The deadlock may be broken by Alberto Vicari , a German despite his Italian name , who represents a group of shareholders who control 5% of Continental 's stock . |
| 10 | The technique is often to introduce a speaker who represents a product in this way : the local radio announcer says live , " Many housewives today use bleach to disinfect kitchen surfaces and to protect the health of their families . |
| 11 | Top price in the ewe section went to W L French , who sold a pen of nine reg Poll yearlings at £69 a head . |
| 12 | A notable exception was Hopkins-Thomas , one of four modern art dealers present , who sold a masterpiece , a neo-Impressionist charcoal and watercolour of 1890 ‘ La retraite aux flambeaux du 14 juillet au Puy ’ by Albert Dubois-Pillet , a follower of Seurat , for something in the region of FFr 1.3 million ( £134,000 ; $233,200 ) within an hour of the Salon opening . |
| 13 | THE eavesdropping ex-bank manager who sold a tape of Princess Di 's lovey-dovey phone chat admitted yesterday that he did it out of greed . |
| 14 | The man who was killed was one of three people who attacked a crew from the international television news agency , Visnews , 50 yards from the Marines ' post at the airport entrance . |
| 15 | POLICE are hoping to help their search for a man who attacked a hotel doorman , leaving him in a coma , by broadcasting a plea for help on the BBC 's Crimewatch programme . |
| 16 | The Iranian government demanded compensation from Turkey , alleging negligence on the part of its security forces , after a six-year-old Iranian boy was killed , and six Iranians wounded , by PKK guerrillas who attacked a train in Mus province , eastern Turkey , on June 11 . |
| 17 | a Perfect clue : Vandals who attacked a bus station left police the perfect clue they daubed their names over the freshly-painted terminus in Seaton Carew . |
| 18 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 19 | Detectives are stepping up their hunt for a rapist who attacked a woman at Nottingham 's Music Festival at the weekend . |
| 20 | TWO teenagers who attacked a group of sixth-formers after a party , leaving one with a double fracture of the jaw , were yesterday locked up by a judge . |
| 21 | Victoria Carrington , 23 , of Northolt , west London , a convent-educated stockbroker who attacked a mother and daughter on an Underground train after they knocked into her newspaper was fined £400 by Knightsbridge magistrates and ordered to pay £600 compensation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 22 | Shining examples of prisons as decent and constructive places generally are brief episodes , often associated with particular staff members who display a combination of exceptional vision , determination and charisma . |
| 23 | On the day she was taken ill , Rose had a severe headache , which became so bad that she called her doctor , who asked a neurologist to visit her immediately at home . |
| 24 | Schmidt had phoned a dealer , the dealer asked his wife , a business journalist , who asked a colleague on the news desk . |
| 25 | A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters . |
| 26 | When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea , one seems stupid to have missed them oneself ; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories , a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm , can strike us with astonishment and awe , as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed . |
| 27 | One of the four was murdered so the KGB sent a hit squad to Beirut who kidnapped a relative of those holding the three remaining hostages , castrated and killed him . |
| 28 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
| 29 | Five and a half years … second sentence for inmate who kidnapped a prison officer . |
| 30 | A MURDER charge against a man who stabbed a burglar was dropped yesterday . |