Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Who was he , this dark and secret lover who had inflamed her with so great a passion ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 8 | President Randy Mueller , the all-American boy who had made it from right here in his little ole home town of Detroit . |
| 9 | There was growing scepticism about an earlier reported attempt on Nevzorov 's life : on Dec. 12 , 1990 , he allegedly had been wounded by a gunman who had lured him to a rendezvous in a Leningrad street by offering him sensitive documents . |
| 10 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 11 | He waited until the taxi had driven off before crossing the road to the Windorah , a small bar run by Dave Jenkins , an Australian who had named it after his birthplace in Queensland . |
| 12 | Sarge — his real name was Paul Sargeant — was an Australian who had modelled himself on John Belushi and disapproved of good language ( he once took me to task for using the word ‘ carouse ’ ) . |
| 13 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 14 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 15 | The old lady who had seen something from her window , all those years ago . |
| 16 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 17 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 18 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 19 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 20 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 21 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 22 | The hut was home to some lizards and to the island 's one taxi driver who had sequestered it as his office and gasoline store . |
| 23 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
| 24 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 25 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 26 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 27 | The group who had taken her under their wing were Parisian bandits , who had taken to harassing the Nazis since the occupation . |
| 28 | The prize went to a pop singer who had attired himself in tartan trousers , a flower-patterned shirt and a sweater with zig-zag stripes . |
| 29 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 30 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |