Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
| 2 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 3 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 4 | ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the universe , who hast given us the Law of truth , and hast planted everlasting life in our midst . |
| 5 | A tribute to the horse and people who 've made it the home of National Hunt racing . |
| 6 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 7 | Beatrice who had made him a man . |
| 8 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 9 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 10 | In that year 's elections McCarthy went for Senator Tydings of Maryland , who had pronounced him a fraud , with typical unscrupulousness . |
| 11 | He was obliged to return to earth , however , by signs of excitement at the ramparts , which doubtless heralded another attack … and by the Padre who had asked him a question and was waiting with signs of impatience for his reply . |
| 12 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 13 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 14 | Her uncle was a slaughterman who had given her an animal on its way to the abattoir . |
| 15 | She glanced across to Raynor again , and saw him bow his head in brief acknowledgement , and she smiled inwardly , for it was Raynor who had given her the clue , the idea , the knowledge of how to approach his people . |
| 16 | Jenny was the girl she lived with , and the one who had given her the impetus to finally escape the suffocating love of her father and uncle in Hong Kong . |
| 17 | They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent . |
| 18 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |
| 19 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 20 | The fan who had given him the pen had had L. M. inscribed on it . |
| 21 | ‘ Down with the dog Ishaq , ’ yelled the crowd , passing judgment on the president who had sacked him a month earlier . |
| 22 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 23 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 24 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 25 | With a heavy heart Rain watched Barbara Coleman , who was still reminiscing about the shopkeeper who had sold her the caddy , set out four cups and saucers and round up four teaspoons from a drawer . |
| 26 | Especially the ‘ ancient ’ family who had sold her the house and now , pathologically , could not forgive her for buying it , since they had lost caste by moving away — unfortunately for Jane , only a mile away . |
| 27 | Equally , when Bishop Æthelstan of Hereford was involved in litigation over an estate in Cnut 's time , it was ordered ( S 1460 ) that the boundaries be retraced , and this the bishop did together with the man who had sold him the land and the witnesses . |
| 28 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 29 | He was just Margaret 's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand . |
| 30 | In a letter to the Stirling Conservative MP , Michael Forsyth , a defence minister of state , Archie Hamilton , assured his ministerial colleague — who had forwarded him a letter from a constituent in the Killin team — that ability to meet the agreed civil SAR response criteria would not be significantly altered with the closure of Leuchars . |