Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 2 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 3 | The players owe a debt to the club and those long-suffering fans who have made them among the best paid in the game . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
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| 7 | Afterwards , Mr Pheby said : ‘ It 's a great tribute to the support and enthusiasm of all our readers who have backed us in all our campaigns . |
| 8 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |
| 9 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 10 | No sooner have the Doctor and Vicki gone than the erstwhile school teachers are captured by slave traders who intend selling them at the slave markets in Rome . |
| 11 | The Orcs were also provided with food and reinforcements by Forest Goblins who flocked to join them from the Great Forest . |
| 12 | He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who 've found themselves in a religious dilemma . |
| 13 | ONE-legged cricketer Ian Harris has been stumped by umpires who have banned him from having a runner to sprint his singles . |
| 14 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 15 | Who was he , this dark and secret lover who had inflamed her with so great a passion ? |
| 16 | The Corporal who had fetched me from Lille was shaving in the washroom , wearing only tracksuit bottoms and flipflops ; his back and stomach were covered with a mixture of hair , scars and tattoos . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 19 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 20 | He had felt that he was in the presence of something that wished him harm ; some malign , unseen enemy who wanted to scare him into leaving . |
| 21 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 22 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 23 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 24 | Except when prevented by medical reasons or other sufficient cause , candidates who fail to present themselves for an examination , or to submit cumulative or other forms of assessment work by the due date , shall be deemed by the board of examiners to have failed in that examination or assessment . |
| 25 | Included in this group are schizophrenic subjects who have injured themselves as a consequence of a delusional belief ( for example , that part of the body was evil ) , or because of an hallucination ( such as one in which voices tell the subject to harm himself ) . |
| 26 | And that happened at 23 with an actress who happened to take me under her wing , so to speak . |
| 27 | Now all her hard work has been recognised by West Lothian Arts who have presented her with an Arts Individual Award . |
| 28 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 29 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |
| 30 | Thus in D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 the court was willing to permit the NSPCC to withhold the name of their informant but in British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 the defendants were ordered to disclose the name of the plaintiff 's employee who had supplied them with confidential information belonging to the plaintiff . |