Example sentences of "who [vb past] me [det] " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
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 | 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 . |
4 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
5 | ‘ The last creature who told me that is living in a green-grocer 's shop now . |
6 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
7 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
10 | 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 ’ … |
11 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
12 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
13 | This week 's prize goes by unanimous decision of the judges to East Sussex director Nicholas Holbrook who sent me this letter on alarmingly realistic DoH headed notepaper , with alarmingly realistic signatures of SSI supremo Herbert Laming and Alan Langlands of the NHS Management Executive . |
14 | ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her . |
15 | You , Lily , who gave me such a happy summer with your delightful companionship ! |
16 | The Hon. Gentleman should perhaps speak to some of his own colleagues who gave me that advice . |
17 | And who gave me that Right ? ’ |
18 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
19 | who gave me this ? |
20 | I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest . |
21 | who slipped me some samples . |
22 | The one who left me that brooch you always liked . |