Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 2 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 3 | Though I was a student of literature and , I believe , a reasonably good teacher , and loved my work , and though I was , moreover , a serious poet who had gained some small recognition in circles even outside my own University , my writing life was not confined to poems and articles , or even lectures . |
| 4 | Blaise Cendrars , the vagabond poet who had shared many a bottle with Modigliani , wrote these mysterious lines as preface : |
| 5 | Serious naturalists could sprinkle their descriptions of the internal organization of new species with references to the skill of the Creator who had designed such complex living structures . |
| 6 | Peter Baxter , producer and cricket-lover who had done much to restore outside sports broadcasting , confessed himself happy . |
| 7 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 8 | And why did it tear her apart because it was fitzAlan who had said those terrible things to her ? |
| 9 | On April 3 , 1915 , Stoddart shot himself through the head — the saddest of ends for such a famous cricketer who had brought much brilliance to the game . |
| 10 | The flashpoint came when Aqib Javed , a 19-year-old fast bowler who had earned much admiration during this series and the preceding World Cup , let fly a series of short-pitched balls at England 's No. 11 , Devon Malcolm , a non-batsman if ever there was one . |
| 11 | Anna liked and sympathised with the girl who had written this letter . |
| 12 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
| 13 | Siward , son of that rich Norwegian fur-trader who had found more profit in England than in the uncertain fortunes of Norway . |
| 14 | Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army . |
| 15 | An archbishop who failed to challenge that kind of economic fundamentalism would virtually have abandoned the social hope of the Christian Church . |
| 16 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |
| 17 | The attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in such a matter was reliable , and those Government supporters in Parliament who had given most study to the matter were unanimously in favour of abolition . |
| 18 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 19 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 20 | Karl Marx was not the only economist who died holding this belief . |
| 21 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 22 | The others say the owner was a concrete salesman who wanted to use these fantastic sculptures to demonstrate the possibilities of his product . |
| 23 | An earlier thinker who declined to see any mutual contradiction between similar terms was Leslie Weatherhead , psychologist and cleric , who published his Creed of a Christian Agnostic . |
| 24 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |
| 25 | The Rev. Al Sharpton , a black clergyman who had led several protest marches in connection with the case , stated that " we are proud to see a young man 's life paid for with some measure of justice " . |
| 26 | Now here was Jack Stone again , a hunted , haunted man , pleading for his life , quite a contrast to the cool , calculating criminal who had led that bank team , years before . |
| 27 | How we blessed the thoughtful Elder who had knitted these for us . |
| 28 | The public dipped deep into their pockets to set free Rocky , a dolphin who had spent all his adult life in captivity . |
| 29 | He predicted the young gipsy would rise to new and great heights now he had a wife beside him — a wife who had spent most of her life in the Wychwood Forest and whose trials had touched the hearts of all those who knew and loved her . |
| 30 | IN THE July issue of the Voice , we asked ‘ Where are you John ? ’ as a friend who had left these shores many years ago , living in Australia , wanted to make contact . |