Example sentences of "who [vb past] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks also to the kind young woman with two young children who helped me on the train and gave me an orange drink . |
| 2 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 3 | The one who interviewed me about the accident . ’ |
| 4 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 5 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 6 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 7 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 8 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 9 | Having disposed of the simple administrative matter in a commonsense way , I then spoke to Chris protheroe who told me about the fatigue failure of the right stabiliser spar . |
| 10 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 11 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
| 12 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 13 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 14 | You were the one who followed me from the ferry ! ’ |
| 15 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 16 | It was you , when I was ready to deny any such ridiculous notion , who threatened me with the loss of my job if I did n't back you up all the way ! |
| 17 | " It was you who pulled me to the ground ? " |
| 18 | In town later that day we met a PE teacher , who guided me to the sponsor 's offices for a form but no further information . |
| 19 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 20 | I made it and I made it back , but the friend who saw me onto the train was so concerned at my appearance , she phoned my daughter . |
| 21 | It was he who introduced me to the doyen of all Tibetan experts , Sir Charles Bell who , because of the war , was living quietly at The Old Charming Inn near Victoria while writing his last book . |
| 22 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 23 | Arkan showed his less affable side when he tackled the photographer who accompanied me around the throat , throwing him out of his office and smashing his video camera underfoot . |
| 24 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |