Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 2 | ( We should hear the question ‘ Who sold them the weapons ? ’ more often . ) |
| 3 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 4 | However , it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods , later acquires the title to them . |
| 5 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 6 | THE man who sold us the Barbie doll may soon be promoting the scandal-rocked Royal Family . |
| 7 | Their book was assailed by Clifford , who asked what the ‘ sickly dreams of hysterical women and half-starved men ’ had to do with the ‘ gentle patience of the investigator that shines through every page of this book ’ . |
| 8 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 9 | He was the first person in the Soviet Union who realized what the avant-garde meant in terms of world art , as he set about searching for and collecting drawings , pictures , canvases … |
| 10 | From suppliers of the largest heavy plant , to those who sell us the smallest washer ! |
| 11 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 12 | At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace . |
| 13 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 14 | Her husband was the one who got her the job as well ! |
| 15 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 16 | Who got you the toast ? |
| 17 | There are people , wholesalers coming from London who supply us the goods and er there are some goods which are manufactured in this country , some are imported . |
| 18 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 19 | Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most , always like it the least . |
| 20 | It was on those lonely walks that he had first had intimations of an essentially adult truth , that it is those who most love us who cause us the most pain . |
| 21 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 22 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 23 | who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles |
| 24 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 25 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 26 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 27 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 28 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 29 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 30 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |