Example sentences of "[noun] who had [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
2 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
3 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
4 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
5 | Elfman used to boast to anyone who would listen that he was able to auto-fellate with the minimum of effort , making him the envy of every young buck who had tried it for himself and only succeeded in collapsing with a racking backache . |
6 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |
7 | Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ? |
8 | The grandmother who had held him for a family photograph ; the mother Eda , the father Meir , the brothers Chaim , Avram , Aizik and Josef ; the sisters Selma and Esther . |
9 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
10 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
11 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
12 | His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ? |
13 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |