Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] who [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their luck had been good , for everyone who had left the warren was still alive . |
| 2 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 3 | Michael Duffy ( HND Catering and Hotelkeeping , 1976 ) is organising a reunion for everyone who started a catering course in the 1970s . |
| 4 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 5 | Formal labour markets in capitalist economies have never been able to provide paid employment for everyone who needed it , and short of allowing wage-labourers and their families of future wage-labourers to starve , either individual capitalists or the state on their behalf had to provide alternative means of support . |
| 6 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 7 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 8 | Miss said somebody did that for me who did n't want to do their ordinary work . |
| 9 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 10 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 11 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |
| 12 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 13 | He learned his trade and was reasonably competitive in an old car for someone who had no money for either equipment or spares . |
| 14 | Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain . |
| 15 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 16 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 17 | Not bad for someone who had just barn-stormed around after leaving college . ’ |
| 18 | It was a good age for someone who had seen untimely deaths on all sides of her family . |
| 19 | Not bad for someone who had n't a ) played right back or b ) been a first team regular until this season . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone who had a baby here , twenty years ago , ’ said Juliet . |
| 21 | Nothing could have been more perfect for someone who had to work , but desperately wanted to enjoy the sunshine and activities of summer . |
| 22 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 23 | ‘ So we are looking for someone who knew his business . ’ |
| 24 | FOR SOMEONE who wrote so little and whose chief recreation — picking up men -involved a high degree of furtiveness , J R Ackerley 's life is surprisingly well-documented . |
| 25 | For example , a speaker might provide a summary for someone who wished to know what the intended relevance of the lecture was but who was only familiar with the subject at an elementary level . |
| 26 | There were other legits she might have bribed or bullied into a similar sharing , but the stairs and the other dusty corners of the World were safer for someone who lived by her knife and her wits . |
| 27 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 28 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 29 | Then he said , " The Boxing and Coxing on the ships would only be possible for someone who controlled a shipping line . |
| 30 | Hunt is a big man and a strong one , and while at his peak , he stayed in remarkable physical condition for someone who put so great a strain on himself . |