Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | From suppliers of the largest heavy plant , to those who sell us the smallest washer ! |
| 3 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 4 | It was on those lonely walks that he had first had intimations of an essentially adult truth , that it is those who most love us who cause us the most pain . |
| 5 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 10 | chat with Chris Symonds who says its the biggest adrenalin rush you can get … it is sometime scary |
| 11 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 12 | who showed him the true path : |
| 13 | ‘ Now we have young players who know what the Irish set up is all about . |
| 14 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 15 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 18 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 19 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 20 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |
| 23 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 24 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 25 | The people who brought us the old-school Arkwright football shirts are now bringing us Subbuteo merchandise complete with the classic Subbuteo falcon logo . |
| 26 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 27 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |