Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was to Duncan the Drunken in Barking who agreed to do me a weekend deal on a Transit in exchange for a loan of Armstrong . |
| 2 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 3 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 4 | ‘ A steadying drink , and to know who tried to kill me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's true , but neither have you got a reason to shield the person who tried to kill me . ’ |
| 6 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 7 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 8 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 9 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me that my mother would die , and it was a profound shock when she did , After a year or so my father left the Army and remarried a Highland lass who seemed to adore me , but did not seem to take to my sister who lived with an aunt . |
| 11 | Here was this girl who seemed to think I was capable of clearing up her troubles , but did n't think I 'd have enough brains to find out her identity . |
| 12 | The first person who came to see me was n't Doone after all but Tremayne . |
| 13 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 14 | Like the midwife who came to see me said , " Ooh , you 're only seventeen " , and I looked at her — how old do you have to be to have a baby — forty or something ? |
| 15 | Luckily f had friends living locally who came to visit me regularly and I went home every weekend , otherwise I would have gone mad . |
| 16 | So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons . |
| 17 | Perhaps the people who came to meet me will still be there — ’ She smiles desperately at him , her insides shaking with fantasies of what will happen if he refuses . |
| 18 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 19 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 20 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 21 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 22 | So was old Jacko , who 'd made me re-write at Thrills piece twice and still did n't run it . |
| 23 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 24 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 25 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 26 | I remembered the friend of Aisha 's who 'd helped me escape from her house in London , carrying one of Aisha 's children , while I took my suitcase and dragged the other child along with me . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 28 | I turned to the waiter who 'd brought me . |
| 29 | I asked if I could see the people who 'd brought me in and after a few minutes , Bunny and Rayleen appeared at the bedside . |
| 30 | To , to , to my friend who 'd bought me a , you know , a pint of beer I would have said , ‘ We wanted , I wanted , not only annual licensing but also linked to training and food handling , otherwise it does n't mean anything . ’ |