Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 2 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 3 | Try it for yourself : go out into a meadow , a village street , stand by the bank of a stream or on the sea shore and imagine the people who knew it 1,000 years ago . |
| 4 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 5 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |