Example sentences of "[pron] who had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
| 2 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 3 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 4 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
| 5 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |
| 6 | As it was I who had spoken , my mother responded sharply . |
| 7 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 8 | Sadly it was n't I who had pasted them up . |
| 9 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 10 | The answer , ask someone who had to be a true native . |
| 11 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 12 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 13 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 14 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 15 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 16 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 17 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 18 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 19 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 20 | There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial . |
| 21 | He acted like the gangster in a B movie rubbing out someone who had got in his way … |
| 22 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 23 | What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team . |
| 24 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 25 | Two such passages stand out in my memory : one was of a forced march during the Crimean War ; the other , an account by someone who had travelled in the west of Ireland in the years of the Great Hunger . |
| 26 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 27 | Over half the farms had someone who had taken part in some kind of formal training . |
| 28 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 29 | By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her . |
| 30 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |