Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 2 | The attacker could have been either Orlick , or the stranger who had shown me the file . |
| 3 | The Corporal who had fetched me from Lille was shaving in the washroom , wearing only tracksuit bottoms and flipflops ; his back and stomach were covered with a mixture of hair , scars and tattoos . |
| 4 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 5 | He was just Margaret 's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand . |
| 6 | Edward recalls his earliest years at Wakehurst Road : I have only one clear early glimpse of my father — darting out of the house in his slippers and chasing and catching a big boy who had bullied me . |
| 7 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 8 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 9 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 10 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 11 | The white frilly aprons and mob caps clearly labelled those who had elected to become servants for the afternoon ; less easily identifiable were the spiv I 'd spotted earlier — with his slicked-back , Brylcreemed hair and sneer of a moustache — and the vampish creature dressed in black taffeta adorned with diamanté who had looked me up and down disdainfully . |
| 12 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 13 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 14 | The neighbours , once in the picture , were kindness itself — though the woman who had rung me , standing smoking on the steps , shouted after me : ‘ Took your bloody time , did n't you . ’ |
| 15 | He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me . |
| 16 | If the crowd became too large or the children too cheeky , the stall owner who had granted me permission would disperse them . |
| 17 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 18 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 19 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 20 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 21 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 22 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 23 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 24 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 25 | I had more or less finished when the copper who had pulled me appeared from the back office and lifted the flap in the desk to get by me . |
| 26 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 27 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 28 | Fixed in the centre was the naval officer who had interrogated me . |
| 29 | This fellow was one of the Luciferi who had threatened me in London , carried out the dreadful murders of the Ralembergs and put the blame on me . |
| 30 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |