Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retracing her steps , she encountered one of the paper 's rare female employees , who offered to show her the way to the library . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was n't quite sure why the possibility that it was Luke Hunter who had sent her the flowers was so disturbing … |
| 5 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fan who had given him the pen had had L. M. inscribed on it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Universal , who had advanced him the $850,000 were even prepared for the fact that it challenged the American Dream and attacked American society for ‘ destroying itself ’ , told through its hero — played by Dennis — who is a Hollywood stunt man devoured by his quest for big cars , swimming pools and gorgeous girls . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before . |
| 18 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 19 | The attacker could have been either Orlick , or the stranger who had shown me the file . |
| 20 | Not only had he robbed that particular S&L just three days earlier , but the teller at the window was the same person who had handed him the cash at gunpoint . |