Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.

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1 TENSE , WHITE-knuckle narco drama starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a rookie cop and Jason Patric as the seasoned , streetwise superior who takes her under his wing and into a maelstrom of danger and addiction .
2 Hugh Cudlipp , the newspaper baron who launched her on her career , advised her never to say how old she was .
3 Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock .
4 Ran away with the blacksmith who beat her with his bellows if his dinner was n't ready on time , and now she lies buried underneath the spreading chestnut tree .
5 A drug specialist service works out a withdrawal programme with her GP who introduces her to a support group and individual counselling .
6 In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town .
7 In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys .
8 Auntie Lou had friends in the town who asked her to tea sometimes but she never dared ask them back .
9 There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into .
10 Knowing that her remaining twin was in danger , she rushed to the home of a friend who drove her to hospital .
11 St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time .
12 In feeling , though not in detail , this stands closer perhaps to another figure known in many copies through which a really great original seems to shine : ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ ( fig. 81 ) , after the scholar who reconstructed her from copies of the head ( known by a quaint tradition as ‘ Aspasia ’ ) and of the body , one with a Roman portrait-head .
13 Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions .
14 ‘ It 's just that the only person who saw her on Saturday was the Minister — Mr Hawick . ’
15 A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint .
16 A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area .
17 DOG SAVES WOMAN : Alsatian saved 27-year-old woman ower by biting man who attacked her with a knife .
18 Jack Owen was a sturdy , pleasant-looking man who greeted her in friendly fashion , though there was a hint of embarrassment in his manner .
19 Yes , it was true a woman must marry any man who asks her on Remembering Night — by order of the Star Council .
20 She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger .
21 Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone .
22 She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him .
23 Was it because the man who held her in his arms was a confident and easy dancer ?
24 How could she have let herself be used by a man who held her in contempt ?
25 She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ .
26 She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that .
27 Headlined ‘ This Sick Idea ’ , the leader recorded the fact that Mr Clay was unaware of what Mrs Thatcher was trying to do and asked whether she had not realised that ‘ by seeking to reward the only general secretary who treated her with kid gloves , she would end up by blackening his name ’ .
28 Rosa was there drinking fruit juice with Fritz Kott and a few other pupils from the Egon Schultz School who greeted her with the same , unanimous question : ‘ What happened ? ’
29 Diana , a West African gorilla , has n't forgotten the foster dad who hand-reared her from birth .
30 She eventually located an Immigration officer who led her through several corridors until they reached a locked red-painted door at the back of the airport building .
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