Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] who [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 2 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 4 | We never found anyone who had a bad word to say against Tony . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Did you know anyone who had a grudge against her ? ’ |
| 6 | Back home in Ireland — I come from Ulster , as if you did n't know — I did n't know anyone who had a bath ! ’ |
| 7 | Police in Lurgan want anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them on 0762-325144 . |
| 8 | Freud was a rationalist , impatient with religion , and Jung someone who thought the non-rational and religious areas of human experience held something of worth for modern man . |
| 9 | Now the capable Mrs Brocklebank had become someone who had a conscience and a guilty secret . |
| 10 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 11 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 12 | The appraisers were two , three or four local men appointed by the executors ; usually they were friends and neighbours ( some of whom were illiterate ) , but they often included someone who had the reputation of knowing how to do the job . |
| 13 | I reckon somebody who knew the area very well . |
| 14 | May I please use your pages to thank everybody who made a donation to my collection towards insulated sleeping mats for London 's homeless ? |
| 15 | Adam sat at his usual lunchtime table in the Savoy Grill the one discreetly opposite the main entrance , so that without seeming to do so , he saw everyone who entered the restaurant . |
| 16 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 17 | She knew someone who knew a woman . |
| 18 | The seduction that had followed had been both a homage and a revenge ; an attempt to control someone who exercised an authority over him that defied analysis . |
| 19 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 20 | Do you mean somebody who owned a er some kind of vehicle , tradesmen some of the tradesmen did but not many that I can remember , no I do n't think there was too many of them . |
| 21 | There were a great many houses in the vicinity of Hadleigh of the same sort of size as Wyvis Hall and a newspaper would be likely to describe anyone who possessed a few acres as a ‘ landowner ’ . |
| 22 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |
| 23 | I deter anybody who 'd every wanted to get on one of the buses . |
| 24 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 25 | Their organisation was loose knit but they accepted anyone who swore the oath of secrecy and agreed to share things in common , which I promptly did . |
| 26 | Judge Gabriel Hatton said anyone who assaulted the police must go to gaol . |
| 27 | His argument against me had been my lack of experience — he particularly wanted someone who had a lost more PR experience . |
| 28 | The Corporals followed behind him , throwing stuff everywhere and beating anybody who did the slightest thing wrong . |
| 29 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |