Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 2 | ‘ The last creature who told me that is living in a green-grocer 's shop now . |
| 3 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 4 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 5 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
| 6 | I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest . |
| 7 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 8 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |