Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheerful , and unaware of the failures at the southern lock , he urged on young Watson , who steeled himself for another attempt at breaking through the place . |
| 2 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 3 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 4 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 5 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 6 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 7 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 8 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |