Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I give 'em ter ole Granny Pridey who used ter live next door ter me . |
2 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
3 | This was the case with Marjorie , who 'd just accepted voluntary retirement after 20 years in her office . |
4 | And er there there was a major who 'd only got one eye . |
5 | The girl , who happened never to enjoy this activity , ground her teeth together . |
6 | Sheikh Mohammed 's Bridal Toast , who finished powerfully to take second place could have more scope to progress as a Derby contender . |
7 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
8 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
9 | Soon , Russia was seen as a land of opportunity and many men who went there attained high positions . |
10 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
11 | Participants who smoked also had higher rates of short and long spells of sickness absence compared with non-smokers . |
12 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
13 | Wheeler , who was junior to them both , who had contrived to have the best set of rooms in the office and who had successfully requested both men to wait on him , cleared his throat to announce that he was ready to start the discussion . |
14 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ amended Constance , who had just voiced this thought , ‘ it 's the sort of place you might find nuns walking , telling their beads and saying their hours and stuff . |
15 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
16 | ‘ I did n't know the man sitting next to the producer was Dick Lester , who had just directed that film , ’ recalled Crawford ‘ Anyway , I got the part and it certainly could n't have been my charm or personality that did it . ’ |
17 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
18 | Subsequently , 4 other patients from East Fife , who had also become regular attenders at the class , became colonised with the epidemic strain ( figure 1A , patients E12 , E13 , E15 , and E17 ) so that by November , 1991 , all 9 members of the fitness class were colonised . |
19 | A group of 18 patients aged 16 to 41 years ( median 31 years ) , who had also undergone restorative proctocolectomy , matched for sex , type of reservoir , operative technique , and duration of follow up formed a control group for comparison with the older patients ( Table I ) . |
20 | Hatta was assisted by another Holland-returned politician , Sutan Sjahrir , who had also spent several years in the Netherlands and become an admirer of the Dutch Socialist movement . |
21 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
22 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
23 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |
24 | Amidst all the conservative demands for legislative restrictions on what the agency might support , President Bush selected Frohnmayer as the new NEA chairman to replace the Reagan-appointee Frank Hodsoll , who had wisely departed some months earlier for the more peaceful climes of a top job at the Office of Management and Budget , the White House department concerned with enforcing its fiscal policies on an often recalcitrant federal establishment . |
25 | Comparing the 8-hour with the 5.5-hour sleep regimes for the six subjects who had normally taken 8 hours sleep . |
26 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
27 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
28 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
29 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
30 | It had been arranged by the conspirators that the young shop steward , who had already collected two warning notes as planned , would take out a set of spark plugs in his lunch box at the mid-day break . |