Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " 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 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 3 | Cawarden probably welcomed the accession of Elizabeth , who appointed him joint lieutenant of the Tower , but he died soon afterwards , on or shortly before 29 August 1559 . |
| 4 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
| 5 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
| 6 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 7 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
| 8 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 9 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 10 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 14 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 15 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 16 | We were aware that there were men among the thickets following us , but it was the monkeys who caused us most trouble . |
| 17 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 18 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 19 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 20 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 21 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 22 | He was lucky to have the support of his family , but above all , in having as his Lady Mayoress a wife who showed him such love and devotion , in sickness and in health . |
| 23 | This is all in the working week for Tim Renwick , who spared me some time just before he started work on ‘ Tom Jones — The Right Time ’ … |
| 24 | From 1846 they could sue those who owed them small sums under £20 in county courts , created for that purpose in that year . |
| 25 | In these cases , the prince might well be surrounded by vassals who owed him military service ; but they would be present not from obligation but from desire , and they would be accompanied by large numbers whose reason for being there had nothing to do with feudal ties or fidelity . |
| 26 | Or you may return to where you bought an item and the assistant ( who served you last time ) will tell you that this shop has never stocked whatever it is . |
| 27 | He was treated pre-operatively by the physiotherapist who taught him deep breathing exercises . |
| 28 | Well part of the morning , who taught you this morning ? |
| 29 | ‘ Who taught you this magic ? |
| 30 | He wants no superstar treatment from Team Pileri , who signed him last year and saw him steal the glory from team-mate and ex-champ Fausto Gresini . |