Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breach of a civil law , in contrast to a breach of a criminal law , normally renders the person who has broken it liable to pay damages to the victim of the breach . |
| 2 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 3 | ‘ The Brazilian economy is an economy of frights , and mercifully this plan brought no new frights , ’ said Roberto Campos , a former finance minister who has seen it all . |
| 4 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 5 | But perhaps the most telling comment came from one elderly farmer who has seen it all before . |
| 6 | ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart . |
| 7 | ‘ Praise God , who has shown us marvellous mercies ! ’ breathed Prior Robert in rapture . |
| 8 | Katherine is a seductive piranha who has got it all : an immaculate haircut , marvellous job , magnificent Manhattan apartment filled with designer clothes , opulent furniture and boyfriend in the background . |
| 9 | ‘ Who has told you that ? ’ |
| 10 | She 'd lost count of the number of people who 'd asked her that ; lost count of the number of answers she 'd given . |
| 11 | Mike Barson , the man who 'd given them most of their best tunes , quit the group , spent . |
| 12 | I know that three days before they were killed , twenty-five people were invited to that house for the mass whipping of a dealer from Sunset Strip who 'd given them some bad dope . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you also sorry for telling Simon it was he who 'd made you pregnant ? ’ he demanded , looking at her as though she shed her skin and ate rats whole . |
| 14 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
| 15 | So many dyslexic children have been reduced to a state of dreadful anxiety by teachers who 've called them stupid in front of the other children . |
| 16 | Tycho was a Protestant , beholden only to the king of Denmark , Frederick II , who had granted him free use of a small island to pursue his astronomical studies . |
| 17 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |
| 18 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |
| 19 | The most notable absentee , of course , was former captain Vivian Richards , who had made it clear that he wished to end his career in the World Cup where , in the previous four tournaments , he was the only batsman to exceed a career total of 1000 runs . |
| 20 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 21 | Jamaica indicated another approach to the art of colonization , in which the government took valuable colonies away from Europeans who had reached them first . |
| 22 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 23 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
| 24 | Was it perhaps he who had taught her all those words ? |
| 25 | ( Who had taught her these words ? |
| 26 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
| 27 | She had seen me on television and remembered the skinny little boy , Linford Christie , who had asked her all those questions on a flight from Kingston twenty-one years earlier . |
| 28 | I wrote back to all those who had sent me hand-written letters . |
| 29 | She wondered who had sent them all . |
| 30 | As we approached the loch , in order to impress Blair with my vast knowledge , I repeated Stan 's tale about Pennel Point , being careful not to mention who had given me such valuable information . |