Example sentences of "who [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are many of us who owe him a great deal . |
| 4 | who showed him the true path : |
| 5 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 6 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 7 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 8 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 9 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
| 10 | And if Derry succeed , he will murmur a silent but heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to Kevin Heffernan , the man who gave him a new outlook and sense of purpose in the sport which has made him both a local and national hero . |
| 11 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
| 12 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 13 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 14 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 15 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 16 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |