Example sentences of "[pron] who had [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |
| 2 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 3 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 4 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 5 | In discussing identity formation at adolescence , Erikson posits that it is partly ‘ dependent on the process by which a society ( often through subsocieties ) identifies the young individual , recognising him as someone who had to become the way he is and who , being the way he is , is taken for granted . |
| 6 | Critics of Guerreiro 's dismissal , however , stated that this decision was for foreign consumption , and pointed out that it was Collor himself who had delayed the boundary decision by six months in order to give FUNAI more time to study the region . |
| 7 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 8 | He then talked about the changes in the power blocs , adding that those like himself who had expected the coherence of Europe to develop strongly had found the reality ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 9 | It was n't the look of somebody who had won the jackpot but somebody who looked spiritually fulfilled as well . ’ |
| 10 | And yet Maurice appeared to be almost proud , because Harry was not a customer , but somebody who had demanded a favour and given nothing in return . |
| 11 | Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection , somebody , moreover , who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling . |
| 12 | At all times , almost everyone who had seen a poll noticed that the Conservatives were top , but perceptions of which party was in second place varied sharply . |
| 13 | Their luck had been good , for everyone who had left the warren was still alive . |
| 14 | He said he had written to everyone who had included an address , explaining that the problem in the dress circle was due to the original structure of the theatre . |
| 15 | In fact it was me who had to break the news of the murder to him . ’ |
| 16 | But it was me who allowed myself to get fat , so it was me who had to make the effort to get slim . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 18 | Nan had been twelve then , and it was she who had tipped the balance . |
| 19 | ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits . |
| 20 | Since they 'd met he was the one who had been in charge , the one who had called the tune . |
| 21 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |
| 22 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 23 | But what of the other , that one who had planned the death ? |
| 24 | About the same time , and rather surprisingly for a Tory committed to the old East India Company and one who had lost the remittance contract to the newly founded Bank of England , Herne also joined the so-called tobacco contractors . |
| 25 | One who had followed the King 's army from London to Coventry was ‘ taken by the soldiers , and first led about the city then set in a pillory , after in a cage then ducked in a river , and at last banished the city ’ . |
| 26 | But one who had given no thought to love . |
| 27 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 28 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 29 | Apart from Benjamin and I , he was the only one who had left the manor so his cloak and boots would have been covered in snow . |
| 30 | It was the biggest of her sons speaking now , the one who had opened the door , and he said , ‘ She 's a classy piece , Ma , and she 's come with some strange news . |