Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 2 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 3 | This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums . |
| 4 | We were greeted by an entourage from the Dyfed Wildlife Trust led by their Director , David Saunders , who instantly led us to the boat . |
| 5 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 6 | Some of those who actually made it to the polling stations could not disguise their disappointment . |
| 7 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 8 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |