Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 2 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 3 | ‘ The caretaker who showed us the place — and he does n't know my name either . ’ |
| 4 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 5 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 6 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 7 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 8 | The girl who taught us the song was called Isabel . |
| 9 | ‘ The girl who gave you the message from Richter . |
| 10 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 11 | Quinn , meanwhile , joined Coventry with a good luck message from the boss who showed him the door at St James ' Park . |
| 12 | It was an early example of her sensitivity to the needs of others , a quality noticed by her headmistress , Miss Rudge who awarded her the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school in her last term in 1977 . |
| 13 | And I assume it was your sister who told you the name of the family I was looking for ? ’ |
| 14 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 15 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 16 | John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure . |
| 17 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 18 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 19 | Perhaps above all he will be remembered by many as the friend who taught them the craft that is organic chemistry . |
| 20 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 21 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ In those early days , ’ says Gatfield , ‘ the A&R person is everything to a new act — they hold the purse strings and there is a very special relationship because it was the A&R person who offered them the way into a record company , which is very , very special . ’ |
| 23 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 24 | However , it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods , later acquires the title to them . |
| 25 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 26 | Love Endill ( the person who left you the food ) . |
| 27 | THE grandfather of Cadbury Flake girl Rachel Brown last night hit out at the ‘ evil ’ person who gave her the designer drug Ecstasy . |
| 28 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 29 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 30 | At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace . |