Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unlike a good many tough guys who made it big in movies , Marvin did n't come from a particularly tough background . |
| 32 | ( James Brown , 20/2/88 who made it Single Of The Week along with The Wedding Present 's ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ ) |
| 33 | University Challenge was unique in its content because of its simplicity and of course its omniscient host Bamber Gascoigne who made it unique . |
| 34 | University Challenge was unique in its content because of its simplicity and of course its omniscient host Bamber Gascoigne who made it unique . |
| 35 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 36 | ‘ And who made it bald ? |
| 37 | ’ Chert — did you tell anyone that it was me who got you involved with Ardakke ? ’ |
| 38 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ I only ever met one who got it right ’ , he says , ‘ and he was an Abo called Albert out of Hermannsburg . |
| 40 | Who got it right ? |
| 41 | This bloke 's got two Lambourginis in the garage and er the latest BMW all from , he said he works seven days a week for it he said but he , you know , he 's just an ordinary bloke who got it all just working |
| 42 | We can see who got it first |
| 43 | It then had to be washed and hung up to dry before my bucketful was " sold " to someone who got it ready for the shops . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 46 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 47 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 48 | She watched as he stretched out his towel alongside her , and it did n't escape her that she was n't the only female on the beach who found him attractive . |
| 49 | Internal promotions always pose problems and there were those who found her hard to take . |
| 50 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 51 | But being married to him had taught her that he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget — indeed , she was tempted to think that he enjoyed harbouring grudges and taking revenge . |
| 52 | it was very much a composite host , consisting of the Earl 's own feudal manpower , the levies required by the crown , for the support of the Warden , from Border lairds , and bands of assorted mosstroopers belonging to various clans who found it profitable and expedient to ally themselves with the most powerful figure in South-East Scotland , the assembly at Holywell Haugh amounting to about three thousand . |
| 53 | I did not like the accusation of naïvety , preferring to believe that I was an honest man who found it hard to imagine how other people could live with a guilty conscience . |
| 54 | He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court . |
| 55 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 56 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 57 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 58 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 59 | When King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden turned his attention to objects made of this material in building his collection of Chinese art there were those who found it difficult to reconcile such pieces with his choice porcelains , jades and lacquer-work . |
| 60 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |