Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees .
2 Janie 's mother , Angela Darling , clearly distraught , took time out to praise the police who 'd worked so hard on the investigation .
3 The Houghton Band provided the music and an admirable caller who managed to direct even those of us with two left feet through an amazing number of turns and convolutions which somehow always managed to bring us back to our starting point .
4 ‘ We do n't want anything thank you , fatty , ’ said one girl to Joy , who did look slightly obese in her pink striped apron and cream tights .
5 This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter .
6 Two of the three involved have been mentioned in the previous section : first was Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , who had become more content with continued home care after one year .
7 Since none of the candidates obtained an overall majority , Walesa ( who had fallen well short of his objective of outright victory in the first round ) and Tyminski would contest a run-off for the presidency on Dec. 9 .
8 In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House .
9 Arthur , who had followed so much of Jack 's inner journey , was the perfect companion during those strange days .
10 Lord Montague , the master of Cowdray and Battle , succeeded Sir Thomas Browne , his father , who had profited so much from the dissolution .
11 He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’
12 Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar .
13 Jackson , the WBC middleweight champion with a 45-1 record and 42 knockouts , KO 'd club fighter Eddie Hall ( 21-9 ) , who had won only one of his last five fights .
14 The Soviet juror , who had looked distinctly peevish since the beginning of the competition , was dressed in an acre of denim , and kept firing two silver pistols into the air and crying , ‘ Bang , bang ! ’
15 Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots .
16 I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted .
17 They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin .
18 Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else .
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