Example sentences of "[pron] who [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was I who sent old Surrey north to crush James at Flodden . ’ |
| 3 | I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 5 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 6 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 11 | ANYONE can make a mistake , so it would be unfair , would n't it , to poke fun at someone who wrote Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea ( instead of Protection of the Sea ) . |
| 12 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 13 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 14 | Someone who gave good face on film . |
| 15 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 16 | This much is perhaps to be expected from someone who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work . |
| 17 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 18 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 19 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 20 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 21 | It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me . |
| 22 | It was n't me who cashed that cheque |
| 23 | Except ex-convent girls like me who recognised sexual tension when they saw it . |
| 24 | It was not me who stated these truths — it was our correspondents in response to our survey . |
| 25 | Was it you who went bloody hell ? |
| 26 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 27 | I hear it was you who found that woman 's body . |
| 28 | Thanks also to the 400 of you who entered last month 's word search . |
| 29 | In France whose who held high command , sometimes as lieutenants du roi , were usually princes or men who had achieved the rank of banneret , those senior knights whose swallow-tailed pennons had been cut to the square banners of their new rank . |
| 30 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |