Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who met them on the beaches ? |
| 2 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 3 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 4 | Thanks also to the kind young woman with two young children who helped me on the train and gave me an orange drink . |
| 5 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Fernie , Detective-Constable Edwards who interviewed you on the morning after Mrs Connon was killed , said in his very comprehensive report that you had noticed the police arrive the previous night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 9 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 10 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 11 | On 2 November the ban on the 5 October route was challenged by fifteen DCAC members who walked it , accompanied by a large crowd who followed them on the footpaths . |
| 12 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 13 | At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] who employed him on the Thames tunnel and on some sections of the Great Western Railway . |
| 14 | Amos Clapham was leaning on the bar of the Beehive Inn in Gawthorpe one Sunday lunchtime in 1963 when in burst another local , Lewis Hartley , who slapped him on the back and remarked how tired he was looking . |
| 15 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 16 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 17 | The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard . |
| 18 | And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears . |
| 19 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |