Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 32 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 33 | One player who will definitely not be playing at Wembley is United 's England Under-21 international , Mark Robins , who yesterday went into hospital for a cartilage operation . |
| 34 | The Dons , who yesterday pulled in £2.5m from the sale of full-back Terry Phelan to Manchester City , could have made an instant profit on their newly-signed hitman . |
| 35 | This bloke and his daughter who like lived as tramps |
| 36 | On the day the merger was announced , USL president Roel Pieper , who will report to Noorda , claimed a positive reaction to the move from AT&T 's old enemies Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM who always fretted over AT&T 's control , its hardware biases and its association with the bad blood that drove the industry apart . |
| 37 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |
| 38 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 39 | One report described the life of writer , poet , broadcaster and school teacher Naimat Ahmer , ‘ who always talked of peace , justice and democracy ’ . |
| 40 | One report described the life of writer , poet , broadcaster and school teacher Naimat Ahmer , ‘ who always talked of peace , justice and democracy ’ . |
| 41 | He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag . |
| 42 | In the passage she encountered the man who always smelt of meat on the turn . |
| 43 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 44 | He acquired a few pupils , including an ugly girl named Josepha von Auernhammer , who promptly fell in love with him . |
| 45 | It was Louise who usually attended to Miriam , bringing her a ration of water and helping her nearer the fire at night . |
| 46 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 47 | The gaoler who usually dealt with Cameron was called Jamie — he called himself Jamie , like a little boy who has not long learned to speak . |
| 48 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 49 | Oliver St. John Gogarty , who once prevailed upon Yeats to visit Toner 's pub in Baggot Street , was the man who introduced James Joyce to Guinness . |
| 50 | Alpha Saracouu , Sierra Leone 's High Commissioner in the UK , and team manager Major Kargbo made the trip to Ashton Gate to inquire about Rosenior , who once played for England schoolboys . |
| 51 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 52 | Susan Smith , 33 , who once served on Lambeth Council in South London , made almost daily visits to Ronald Lineker 's flat for the kinky sessions , Southwark Crown Court heard . |
| 53 | Demographic changes of a rather different kind have had the effect of substantially reducing the categories of people who once lived with kin . |
| 54 | These loopholes remain despite the concern of some judges such as Mr Justice Boreham , who once said in judgment ‘ I know a little about life and even if [ the accused ] had had intercourse with the girl before , he does not have the prescriptive right to it thereafter . |
| 55 | McMurdo likes to joke about an apocryphal exchange of letters with the Celtic chairman Jack McGinn , who once wrote to McMurdo telling him he was ‘ persona non grata ’ at the club . |
| 56 | ZOLA BUDD , the barefoot waif who once ran for Britain , was a South African disaster in the 3000- metre heats . |
| 57 | Since his last dismal points victory over an ordinary and overweight American , Levi Billups , in Las Vegas on Feb 1 , Lewis has dismissed his trainer , John Davenport , and recruited the flamboyant Cuban-born Pepe Correa , who once worked with Sugar Ray Leonard . |
| 58 | The cause of all this activity was an illfated meeting in December , up north in the District of Columbia , between Mr Marion Barry , DC 's mayor , and Mr Charles Lewis , a St Thoman who once worked for Mr Barry 's government . |
| 59 | In the Russian Museum itself , Oskar Rabin and Valentina Kropivnitskaya , two artists who once worked in Moscow but now live in Paris , have their work on display at present . |
| 60 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |