Example sentences of "who [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was saved by Fritz , who came galloping round the castle to find me . |
| 2 | He turned his lens on a man who came striding through the concourse , his collar turned up , his hat pulled well down . |
| 3 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 4 | TODDLER Natalie Godfrey , who hated sleeping in the dark , was killed yesterday when a candle set fire to her bedroom . |
| 5 | He had been a friend of the Emperor since the two had first met in Rome in 1829 , a time when Malmesbury found him ‘ a wild harum-scarum youth apparently without a serious thought of any kind ’ , who enjoyed galloping through the streets at full tilt on a fine thoroughbred . |
| 6 | He had with him his daughter and her husband , Lord and Lady Brabourne , their fourteen-year-old twin sons , Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull , Lord Brabourne 's elderly mother , and Paul Maxwell , a local lad who enjoyed helping with the boat . |
| 7 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 8 | Karen , who started skating at the age of six , has received grants from the borough council 's Community Chest . |
| 9 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 10 | The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . |
| 11 | I had a horse who loved going on the beach and in the sea at Weston-Super-Mare but hated puddles and tiny streams . |
| 12 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 13 | She was thus entitled to be as forthright as she wished about the travellers , who kept camping in the council yard and various public spaces and were cordially loathed by the local residents , whether they admitted it or not . |
| 14 | Concluding the entry on Knock , the Curate next confided to his diary the tale of Father Vianney , a priest persecuted by the devil , who kept banging on the walls and throwing furniture around . |
| 15 | The matey use of Blanche 's name struck a false note with Dexter , like interviewees he had seen on chat shows who kept tossing in the name of the host every thirty seconds to make it appear they were bosom pals . |
| 16 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 17 | Two sailors who went missing from the destroyer H-M-S Gloucester off the Isle of Man have been arrested in Lancashire . |
| 18 | He strode towards Luke , who lay moaning on the ground . |
| 19 | Who sang Walking In The Air in the film The Snowman ? |
| 20 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 21 | Whenever possible I chose crews who liked working in the north and they always backed me up well . |
| 22 | Alois Podhajsky , a former director of the Spanish Riding School , in his book The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship ( 1973 ) , remarks that ‘ Pluvinel and Guérinière had many followers who influenced teaching throughout the years that followed . |
| 23 | And getting no response from Viola , who continued fussing over the teapot , he added , more directly : ‘ It would be silly to blue the profits before they 've even begun to come in . ’ |
| 24 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 25 | The voice of Doctor O'Connor-Crowley , like a racing-engine snarling through the gears , bore down on Sister Cooney , who sat writing in the office . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps we should go , ’ he whispered , glancing sidelong at Southgate who sat poring over the book . |
| 27 | Suddenly everyone had gone except for one man , the show 's principal backer , who sat crying at the table . |
| 28 | Lucy sent a veiled glance towards Silas , who stood leaning against the dressing-table with an amused expression on his face . |
| 29 | Never once had the French king offered a seat to Lady Francesca , who stood gazing at the monarch , an awed , frightened expression on her beautiful face . |
| 30 | We were brought back to reality by Marty , who stood dripping on the pier head in a bitter east wind shouting , " Come on , when you lot have finished , what about giving me the headrope ? " |