Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
2 | But the Jaguthin who became my close companions were summoned at night , during the full moon . |
3 | As far as Sarah was concerned Charles was her domain at that time and trespassers were not welcome by the sparky redhead who applied her competitive instincts to the men in her life . |
4 | Contrasts in the life of colonial New England are shown in the Puritan Keeping Room of the 1680s and the cosy tavern kitchen of the 1770s with its beehive oven and well protected bar , in the blue-green panelled living room from Lee , New Hampshire , and the mid-eighteenth-century parlor of Captain Perley , who led his Minute Men at the battle of Bunker Hill . |
5 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
6 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
7 | Bell vigorously resisted the attempts by Meese and others to foist on him people he regarded as unqualified ideologues ; he was convinced that movement conservatives wanted to infiltrate his department with appointees who shared their extreme views : ‘ They wanted to be able to monitor deliberations about proposed actions and have early warning of what might be brewing in suspect agencies . |
8 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
9 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
10 | Orlando , who admitted his ghostly ancestors ungrudgingly into his territory by night . |
11 | You had to turn your complaints against the individuals who manned its higher echelons . |
12 | ‘ I want a team of aggressive players but I do n't want violent men in my team ’ , was the advice he gave to Gimbert and Moscato , who made their Five Nations debuts against Wales in Cardiff , while Simon was made captain of the students side . |
13 | Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration . |
14 | Some bands who made their own recordings took the opportunity to encourage others to follow their example . |
15 | She was a non-Catholic and a committed feminist who made her feminist views very clear . |
16 | He was adept with his hands , a talented artist , and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods . |
17 | To put the man in his place , Nigel said that he was a writer who got his best ideas in the small hours . |
18 | Smithers was an English publisher who got his sexual kicks from deflowering virgins , an obsession that gave rise to Oscar Wilde 's celebrated remark that ‘ Smithers loves first editions ’ . |
19 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
20 | Most often , they were souls of jilted girls who visited their erstwhile lovers while they slept , stimulating them to nocturnal emissions and general restlessness . |
21 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
22 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
23 | It can be coloured in many shades by adding metal impurities , as the medieval glass-makers knew , who used their scientific skills to bring subtleties of light into the great European cathedrals . |
24 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
25 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
26 | But Meyer rammed the words of sceptics , who doubted her reported times from the Republic , back down their throats . |
27 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
28 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
29 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
30 | He was a highly stimulating person who was questioning of the mind , who created his own techniques and formed his own mode of expression unpressurized by fashion . |