Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 2 | Too well she knew how difficult the others in the Hall had found her , how most of the parish regarded the Rector 's wife as an aloof , critical figure who acted solely from duty , with little warmth . |
| 3 | He also showed the photo of Tweed you sent over with the courier who travelled here by night ferry . |
| 4 | The four-part series includes a king crowned late in life , a PM who took over in mid-term and a princess snubbed after being pictured on holiday with another man . |
| 5 | He played for a while in a group called Meterzone who appeared mainly at student parties . |
| 6 | ‘ Donny ’ Renfrew was a man of deep spirituality who evangelised simply by being himself . |
| 7 | Another significant filmmaker who came out of television was Ken Russell , who continued working on his imaginative TV interpretations of the lives of such composers as Elgar , Delius and Richard Strauss while making his first , uneven , forays into cinema with French Dressing ( 1963 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1965 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 9 | A FINANCIAL expert who jetted off to South Africa with alleged debts of £4 million was being quizzed by police last night . |
| 10 | They were to have a son and a daughter , and another child who died shortly after birth . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel I shall die of misery … when I die I want written on my tombstone : ‘ Here Lies a Child Who Perished Miserably From Homesickness ’ . ' |
| 12 | Also to , computer programmer , and wife , on the birth of their child who weighed in at 7lb 1½ oz on May 8 . |
| 13 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler who returned early from England 's 1989–90 tour of West Indies with a back problem , has been forced to retire after continuing to feel pain despite two back operations . |
| 14 | Austrian President Waldheim 's visit in August had secured the release of some 80 Austrian nationals ; other developments of this nature included the release of the last 82 of some 500 Brazilians , who arrived home from Baghdad on Oct. 8 ; the release in mid-October of small groups of Spaniards , Finns and Swedes , and a visit to Iraq by a delegation from the American-Iraqi Association , resulting in the release of 14 elderly or sick men of US nationality who flew out to Amman on Oct. 23 . |
| 15 | She was accosted by a make-up girl who fluffed about with powder and asked her about eye make-up . |
| 16 | She was a little girl who lived across from Ali 's old Louisville home when he was at the top . |
| 17 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 18 | Moreover , he was a natural conservative who felt out of sympathy with Irish nationalism , a cause which he thought likely to triumph in the end . |
| 19 | In truth , he was very much smitten by Sarah at the time and he would scarcely have noticed the rather nondescript little sister who fell passionately in love that day . |
| 20 | Enter Mike , a Londoner who moved out to Lausanne six years ago ( and may be remembered for his '83 cover version of Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ as erm , Mike Anthony ) . |
| 21 | Jordan , of course , was United 's Scottish fang-toothed striker who bit deep into defences during the Seventies . |
| 22 | A member of European Parliament who grew up in Teesdale has announced her engagement to a top businessman . |
| 23 | A small , hairy-faced little creature appeared , a veritable mannikin who glared up at Sir John . |
| 24 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
| 25 | First over the line was the Kazakhstan rider Alexandre Nadobenko last year 's King of the Mountains winner who finished ahead of South Africa 's Gary Beneke , British amateur John Charlesworth and Norway 's Ole Simensen , respectively . |
| 26 | Tom Cruise puts in a fine performance as Ron Kovic , disabled Vietnam vet who fought back against indifference from the country he fought for , but somehow Oliver Stone 's direction still leaves the viewer unmoved by his plight |
| 27 | The kabaka-to-be , Ronald Mutebi , a former double-glazing salesman who grew up in Britain , will not get any political power ; his activities will be strictly cultural . |
| 28 | Among the ‘ names ’ were well-known Ulster personalities John McGuckian , the UTV chairman who lost up to £200,000 . |
| 29 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 30 | Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper . |