Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears . |
| 2 | Hunt , who gave up a career in medicine to be a racing driver in 1967 , was given his chance by Lord Hesketh , the British peer who ran his own motor racing team . |
| 3 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 4 | He was adept with his hands , a talented artist , and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods . |
| 5 | There were doctors concerned that they had never been given any information about a nuclear accident , farmers worried about the effect of contamination on their stock and crops , and a teacher who recited his own poem about a nuclear disaster and then presented the Inspector with an oak leaf from the Quantocks . |
| 6 | A teenager who kidnapped his former girlfriend and her stepfather at gunpoint last year has admitted making more threats . |
| 7 | Shirley giggled and said I was a woman who knew her own mind , was n't I , Jim ? |
| 8 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 9 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 10 | A man who sported a sports car and sideboards , a season ticket and a sculpture teacher , a man who produced his own series and had a bachelor pad , a Peter Sarstedt LP and a past ? |
| 11 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 12 | It is the letter of a man who believed his own values were better than those of most others , but who wanted the reassurance of friendship , after which he strove a little officiously , for the fact that this was really so . |
| 13 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 14 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 15 | Very few fathers would actually prefer to have a strong-minded , independent daughter who put her own needs before his and was able to criticize his behaviour openly . |
| 16 | The Jessamy who knew her own worth ; who knew she was going to lead her own life , instead of always trying to do what others wanted and expected of her . |
| 17 | A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague . |
| 18 | MYSTERY surrounds the death of a happily married pharmacist who took his own life by swallowing more than 500 tablets . |