Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gentle , flower-garlanded goddess , Lakshmi spent a great deal of her time in contemplating the universe and bestowed gifts of calm and wisdom upon those mortals who sought to emulate her through transcendental meditation . |
| 2 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 3 | The person who helped squeeze her into this skin tight outfit has left the building and no one else can help her get out . |
| 4 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 5 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 6 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 7 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 8 | A little thrill of anticipation ran along her skin as she turned and looked into the eyes of the man who 'd watched her with such intensity during the fashion show . |
| 9 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 10 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , ’ murmured Mrs Crump , and looked around the hall to root out anyone who dared challenge her on this matter . |
| 12 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 13 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 14 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 15 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 16 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 17 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 18 | They criticised the leaders who had deprived them of proper schooling and their adolescent years . |
| 19 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 20 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 21 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 22 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 23 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 24 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 25 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 26 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 27 | The element of continuity with previous Unity campaigns was thus preserved and the Cripps Memorandum received support from basically the same groups and individuals who had supported him on previous occasions . |
| 28 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 29 | It was Clive who had got her into this mess . |
| 30 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |