Example sentences of "the [noun sg] who [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The agent who arranged it all , ’ he continued , ‘ was he perhaps a lawyer , name of Jaggers ? ’ |
| 2 | Gorman was singled out as the culprit who started it all and was promptly dispatched to the changing rooms . |
| 3 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 4 | Travel — On Home Ground : The performer who makes it all white on the night |
| 5 | The broadcaster who threw it all up to become the son of God was giving thanks on the eve of the party conference in Wolverhampton . |
| 6 | Just as stagebound as anything produced before 1939 is When We Are Married ( 1943 ) , in which three middle-aged couples are thrown into a frenzy upon discovering that the parson who married them all those years ago was n't qualified to do so . |
| 7 | In every part of Europe , twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent ; and the wages of labour are everywhere understood to be , what they usually are , when the labourer is one person and the person who employs him another . |
| 8 | The woman who give me this |
| 9 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 10 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 11 | First , what happened to the Jew who told you all this ? , |
| 12 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
| 13 | At last amazing inside story of Fergie 's shattered marriage … by James Whittaker , the man who brought you THOSE pictures |
| 14 | It has been written and directed by James Dearden , the man who had us all on the edge of our seats with Fatal Attraction . |
| 15 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 16 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 17 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
| 18 | Today the President of Guinness PLC is Benjamin Guinness ( 8 ) ( b. 1937 ) , the third Earl of Iveagh and the sixth direct descendant of the man who made it all possible , over two hundred years ago . |
| 19 | What was the agency in London , what was the name of the man who gave you that packet ? |
| 20 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
| 23 | He then did it in employment , you know , it 's obviously now gon na continue , I do n't know quite erm , how much more damage he can do on the economy , but that 's the guy who started it all . |
| 24 | The one-eyed porter whom I have known from childhood ; the station-master who ranges us all in ranks , beginning with the Duke and ending with a sad , frayed and literary man ; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening , the servant from the inn , the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop — they are all my friends . |