Example sentences of "[pron] who [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 2 | Men , there are men who hate women , I agree with that but there are men who love and respect a a th what a woman is for how how good and and stre , the strength of women who can make you feel good and who who gives you the power of being able to be yourself and I I 'm sorry I I , that is part of it , I think there are two sides . |
| 3 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 4 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 5 | Her husband was the one who got her the job as well ! |
| 6 | Shine On 's owner was the man who had the big gamble on Pendero , and Jack Butler , the bookie , was the one who slipped me the drug . |
| 7 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyone who gives me the information that leads to these people will get the reward money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It was on those lonely walks that he had first had intimations of an essentially adult truth , that it is those who most love us who cause us the most pain . |
| 10 | They said they arrested us because Rachel had told her grandparents it was us who gave her the drug . |