Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
2 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
3 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
4 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
5 | I fell in love with a boy with a crew cut who came to mend our roof with the window cleaner who grinned at me in my rollers and the boy in Vallance 's record shop with a sport face . |
6 | Laura shared rooms in the small terraced house with Alice Cox , a young lady who worked with her at a local Post Office . |
7 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
8 | The seriousness of the revolt was evidenced by the fact that Soapy Simon , an arch-appeaser who wanted above everything to be liked , had become their spokesman and had let them cram into his room and sit it out ( with a break for dinner at the Savoy , of course ) until the PM gave his answer . |
9 | Much to his relief he was finally arrested — and appeared in front of the judge who called for him to be brought before the court back in 1990 . |
10 | Built , as Penry had told her , almost a century before , its mellow brick and gleaming windows blended into the picturesque hillside , welcome in every line of it to the girl who gazed at it in bliss as she turned off the engine . |
11 | He took the arm of the girl who stared at him with shock-darkened eyes . |
12 | I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop . |
13 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
14 | He also acknowledged the kindness of a small group of friends at Queen 's Park who stood by her in prayer and practical matters which she could no longer manage herself . |
15 | Erm , as the person who mo , moved the original motion , I would be very happy to move the recommendations , and to thank Mr , Mrs , Mr and Mr , who are the only members here present who voted for it at the time . |
16 | Ten years ago , a computer was a large , static and very expensive piece of machinery , operated by an expert elite who communicated with it in a language which only they understood . |
17 | Not that the freighter 's jumbled hold was pleasant , crowded with the noisy , dark shapes of the mining team who thought of her as cargo to sell . |
18 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
19 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
20 | Born in Plymouth , Devon , to a poor stonemason , also called John and his wife Elizabeth , John Kitto was a sickly lad who cared for nothing but books . |
21 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
22 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
23 | My family in Nottingham entertained a friend who stayed with us for several days . |
24 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
25 | ‘ Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and … it would operate against every … person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
26 | Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and , in my judgment , it would operate against every volunteer who claimed under him , and also against every person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
27 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
28 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
29 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
30 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |