Example sentences of "who [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view of the incorporation of natural science into the school curriculum is taken by David Layton , who offers us a valuable account of this process of ‘ accommodation ’ in the late nineteenth century , complementary to his earlier study of the demise of ‘ the science of common things ’ . |
| 2 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 3 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 4 | ( Paul Du Noyer 21/1/84 — who made it a joint Single Of The Week along with Cyndi Lauper 's ‘ Girls Just Want To Have Fun ’ and Echo And The Bunnymen 's ‘ The Killing Moon ’ ) |
| 5 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 6 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 7 | After Charlotte 's death in 1783 , the great love of Hickey 's life was Jemdanee , one of his Indian mistresses , who bore him a short-lived son . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 9 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 10 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 12 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 13 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 14 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 15 | Yet the big powers have tended to pick high-grade but unadventurous diplomats who give them a quiet life . |
| 16 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 17 | There are many of us who owe him a great deal . |
| 18 | who showed him the true path : |
| 19 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 20 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 21 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 22 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 23 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 24 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 25 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 26 | The Repeater Hand Gun is also used from horseback by gallant Imperial Engineers who find it a devastating if temperamental device . |
| 27 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 28 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 29 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 30 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |