Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 2 | My social worker who gave me advice asked if I wanted adoption or fostering , and I said fostering ( it was a white family ) . |
| 3 | my famous uncle who adopted me |
| 4 | It was my dreaming son who told me how to do this . |
| 5 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 6 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |
| 7 | Their medieval neighbours who considered their conduct unneighbourly , unjust and unfair , would have had no hesitation in attempting to tighten their looseness in the interests of the common good . |
| 8 | Johnson tushed , and so the other clergyman , Mr Grant ( being well-bred ) , said the prayers , evoking a comment from their distinguished visitor who upbraided him just a little for not including the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 9 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 10 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a support group as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against brain cancer . |
| 11 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a brain tumour association as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against cancer . |
| 12 | Her beautiful mother who missed her so much and sent her all her love . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it still had its American critics who asked what was really meant by the general references to aid programmes and to the use of American forces at the request of Middle Eastern states against " overt aggression from any nation controlled by International Communism " . |
| 14 | First of all , of course , the Pillar of our Society Molly Braithwaite and her devoted team who gave their time , endless endeavours for it to take root . |
| 15 | Pot , hash , cannabis , whatever you call it , is well-documented , too , by its devoted users who praise its benign powers , and by its detractors who believe it is a short-cut to the opium den . |
| 16 | Ranulf muttered indignantly against his strange master who dragged him across this wild country so different from the narrow streets of London and so utterly tedious as well . |
| 17 | He looked grievingly at his elder brother who muttered something . |
| 18 | HUGH Laurie and Stephen Fry return to the screen for another six one-hour episodes of Jeeves and Wooster , the continuing saga of the upper crust twerp and his trusty valet who gets him out of no end of trouble . |
| 19 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |
| 20 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 21 | The Hon. Gentleman should perhaps speak to some of his own colleagues who gave me that advice . |
| 22 | His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him . |
| 23 | He became the contras ' military chief in the mid-1980s , but was ousted from the leadership in February 1990 [ see p. 37236 ] by a number of his fellow commanders who considered his background too tainted by human rights abuses and association with the corruption of the Somoza years for him to negotiate the eventual disbanding and resettlement of the contras [ for which see p. 37450 ] |
| 24 | You know , the kid who 's played it to his best friend who tells him it 's great . ’ |
| 25 | There are rumours that it was his African neighbours who wanted him locked up . |
| 26 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |
| 27 | As we know , sports personalities are becoming ever more surely our national heroes , our gods with feet of clay in platform-sole Pumas , our great mates who do what we do only better ; and no one has done more to turn Britain into this nation of Leisuretown citizens than Christie . |
| 28 | But whose word are we to take here , I wonder , in these conflicting judgements : the backward-looking nostalgia of our postwar Jeremiahs who think they see a golden age of literacy before the war ? |
| 29 | I wish to applaud here , publicly , the great strength and courage of our own members who supported their Association in the face of the highest level of intimidation which I have encountered in my twenty seven years in industrial relations . |
| 30 | ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her . |