Example sentences of "who just [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 2 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 5 | Information for those who wish to return , for those who may return at some future date , and those who just wish to be kept abreast of developments should be incorporated . |
| 6 | The small-ad columns of Scam magazine are full of remote-control hookers who just sit by a telephone all day for money , like Ossie Twain . |
| 7 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 8 | Compared to me , who just wailed like a baby . |
| 9 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 10 | I told them I know them well , their son is not the type who just gets in fights . |
| 11 | ‘ You do get the believers and the buffs , the little sects who just stick to their beliefs and wo n't listen to anything else . |
| 12 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 13 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 14 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 15 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 16 | ‘ I know friends think I 'm a bit outdated in my thinking but I do n't understand women who just live with men . |
| 17 | I do n't take to these modernistic people who just splash on daubs of paint . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 19 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
| 20 | BNL owns one-quarter of a factoring company headed by Luigi Scotti , who just resigned as president of Federconsorzi . |
| 21 | Erm I know a boy erm Rickie who just lives up our road |
| 22 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 23 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 24 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 25 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 26 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 27 | Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " . |
| 28 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |