Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Coskun Yenici , aged 28 , who sold his kidney for £3,000 to finance medical treatment for his father , had to carry the other donor , Mrs Hatice Anutkan , out of the Wellington Humana hospital after the surgery last November . |
| 2 | Eric , who sold his house for the venture , is the resident caretaker , and plans to turn the house into a base for fellow trainspotters are under way . |
| 3 | Samuel Byrd , of Virginia , who rebuked his wife for severity towards a servant , could make a young dependant of his , Eugene , drink , according to Byrd 's diary , ‘ a pint of piss ’ as a punishment for bed-wetting . |
| 4 | My Mam was a very attractive , passionate , extrovert womon who lived her life for my Dad and for all of us . |
| 5 | It should allow access by different fields , so that , for example , a teacher should be able to inquire whether a particular item has arrived in the library by identifying the author or the title of the item or by giving the name of the teacher who recommended its acquisition for the school library . |
| 6 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 7 | On the Glomar Challenger , and back on shore , Hall met others who shared his enthusiasm for the ocean floor . |
| 8 | Muni 's interest , however , would have come to nothing if there were not men at the studios who shared his enthusiasm for this potentially explosive subject . |
| 9 | A friend of Henry James who shared his passion for Venice ( although the novelist had reservations about her creation of a fake palace in his home town ) , Mrs Gardner transferred her passion from clothes and jewels to art in the 1890s . |
| 10 | Devoted to his wife , Julie , and a family who shared his passion for the Catholic Players , Michael was a well-known figure in the Amateur Theatre in Bradford , appearing in shows and concerts with the Society in a period of over 30 years , rarely missing an event . |
| 11 | He was thinking big , and thinking big meant a huge readership — a paper like the Mirror , to be read in equally large numbers by ordinary people who shared his contempt for organized politics . |
| 12 | It was the Captain who voiced his opinion for him : ‘ It 's no wonder we ca n't find flats for our boys when they want to get married , with this sort of competition . |
| 13 | Williams , who made his debut for the county as a teenager in 1974 , scored almost 12,000 runs and took nearly 400 wickets in his first-class career . |
| 14 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 15 | He was a printer who used his skill for the production of a remarkable flow of opinion-forming pamphlets , and a founding father of the United States . |
| 16 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Mr Paul Tsongas , the former Massachusetts senator who suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination a month ago , hinted yesterday that he might re-enter the race if Mr Clinton did poorly in New York . |
| 18 | Cheers : Johan Egelstedt toasts his victory with Greville Janner , the local MP who championed his fight for equal status with female au pairs |
| 19 | Of the 45 Smallholder deputies 33 ( led by Gyula Pasztor ) were expelled from the party , prompting them to call a mini-congress on Feb. 22 in Budapest , attended by nearly 4,000 supporters who reaffirmed their support for the Antall government . |
| 20 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 22 | The five Cabinet members who indicated their sympathy for the abolitionist cause by abstaining were : Cripps , Bevan , Arthur Creech Jones , Philip Noel-Baker and Harold Wilson . |
| 23 | Baker travelled to Egypt on July 19 for talks with Mubarak , who expressed his support for the US plan , as did the visiting Lebanese Foreign Minister Faris Buwayz . |
| 24 | His critics accused his work of lacking in realism , but this did not lessen his popularity with those readers who enjoyed his enthusiasm for romance and adventure . |
| 25 | Loughlin , who broke his arm for the second time in 16 months on Great Britain 's summer tour Down Under , is in the centres after 10 minutes as sub in last Friday 's League defeat at Wheldon Road . |
| 26 | A man who lost his agency for imported electronic equipment , for example , did not praise nationalization of the import business . |
| 27 | But Arthur Scargill , who repeated his contempt for ballots , was roundly applauded . |
| 28 | ‘ Only somebody who knew his weakness for them , ’ said Peggy . |
| 29 | It was a recording of a phone conversation allegedly between the Princess and an admirer , who professed his love for her . |
| 30 | The Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre wishes to thank those members of the staff of AEA Technology who gave their blood for the benefit of others on Tuesday , 12 and Wednesday , 13 January 1993 . |