Example sentences of "[noun] who [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lord of the Rings is a Wagnerian tale partly domesticated — its style reminiscent , as befits an Edwardian boy , of the Kipling who once wrote Rewards and Fairies and delighted children with Puck of Pook 's Hill . |
| 2 | Lord Donaldson said that Mr Goodwin was a very young trainee journalist who only left university this summer . |
| 3 | There were clients who continually pestered dealers about their warrants . |
| 4 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 5 | ‘ I wondered where Muriel was , ’ Theodora said hopefully , thinking with regret of the homely body in knitted Fair Isle bodices who usually manned Gilbert 's phone . |
| 6 | Since the loss of their monopoly as the ruling party , the communists now accounted for half the Politburo ; the rest represented the different parties who now shared power . |
| 7 | Henry Thomas and his son , Philip Henry , were probably Welsh speakers who both married women from Gwent . |
| 8 | Yet this lone , beautiful , and sensitive actress who openly espoused Ibsen and portrayed his bold , modern women did not find it easy living in late Victorian Britain . |
| 9 | Those listeners who also had television sets were asked about their viewing . |
| 10 | What university-educated person can not recall at least one professor who always wore corduroys ? |
| 11 | And also , of course , the reference to Orpheus , a figure who clearly haunted Milton 's imagination as that of the poet of enormous power but somehow also the natural victim . |
| 12 | William Carey was born on 17 August 1761 in the little Northampton village of Paulerspury , the eldest son of Elizabeth and Edmund Carey , a poor weaver who later became village schoolmaster and parish clerk . |
| 13 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 14 | Since his arrival , Sir Kit McMahon has shunned the clearing-bank careerists who traditionally peppered Midland 's senior ranks . |
| 15 | He was that not uncommon thing , a philanthropist who always made money . |
| 16 | Germans not alive when Nazis ruled their country feel shame and a sense of obligation toward Jews ; white Americans who inherited nothing from slaveholders feel an indeterminate responsibility to blacks who never wore chains . |
| 17 | The Cathedral , the Nuns ' House , the City Clock and Uncle Pumblechook 's residence had been duly venerated , and a luncheon had been provided at the Bull Hotel for the benefit of the Lionisers and an odd and uncomfortable collection of those senior residents of Rochester who still remembered Mr Dickens . |
| 18 | The boy who deliberately confused English and German to create a language all to himself , the girl who pulled off her toenails , the boy who refused to speak for days on end , the girl who hid all her possessions and swore that others had stolen them - all these and many more were classed as difficult but just about manageable . |
| 19 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who effectively handed Brian Talbot his P45 by cracking three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 20 | Yes , she was also the only woman since Freddie and the Dreamers had a hit who still drank port and lemon . |
| 21 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the oil companies who kindly provided log examples , core data , core samples and their very valuable advice and to the Schlumberger staff in The Hague and in London for their contribution . |
| 22 | In fact , months of wrangling between the band 's manager and the record company usually ends with the band being dropped , by which time the other record companies who initially showed interest have gone cold . |
| 23 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 24 | Nevertheless she found herself giving the details of her history to a woman over the telephone who fortunately spoke English , along , she was told , with five other languages . |
| 25 | He is a judge — and , as it turns out , not just any judge , but the judge who once sentenced Miss Madrigal to death . |
| 26 | They include some dating back to Emperor Septimius Severus who once ruled York . |
| 27 | The three quarters , too , made telling contributions , in particular centres Cunningham and Danaher who repeatedly defied England with a series of bone crushing tackles . |
| 28 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 29 | She wanted to co-ordinate an article about trees and pollution and Jay and Francis had discovered a photographer who only did trees and did them brilliantly . |
| 30 | Sixty-nine percent of authorities in our sample ( see Table 17 ) said they directly budgeted money for training , ( 70.5% of the CRUS sample , with one-quarter of the authorities who directly budgeted money also calculating a specific further amount , e.g. : |