Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Owner was , in fact , a Mr Salter , one-time servant to Sir Hans Sloane , who had collected many curios rejected by his master on their travels . |
| 2 | who had played many leading roles for the Leicester Operatic Society . |
| 3 | Other ladies standing nearby were beginning to take an amused interest in this interchange between the domineering retired school-teacher , who had ruled many of them when they were young , and Donna Frizzell , who could tear a character to pieces in three minutes with her sharp tongue . |
| 4 | After all the Spartans were said to be relatives of the Sabines who had given many wives and some kings to the Romans . |
| 5 | The matron was a sceptical young woman who had seen many different injuries in her short time at the school and heard many bizarre explanations for them . |
| 6 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 7 | Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners . |
| 8 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 9 | Blaise Cendrars , the vagabond poet who had shared many a bottle with Modigliani , wrote these mysterious lines as preface : |
| 10 | His ambition was stimulated by Nnamdi Azikwe , a Nigerian , who had spent many years ( 1925 — 34 ) in the United States doing graduate work at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 11 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 12 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |