Example sentences of "who brought [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ate little and it was I who brought him food . |
| 2 | The boy who brought him food in the morning was a young fellow he had never seen before , and not one of the men-at-arms , but by the look of him one who belonged behind Isambard 's chair in his great hall , or about his wardrobe to help him to dress . |
| 3 | During the fighting in Kansas Territory in the 1850s between Southern settlers who brought their slaves with them , and Northern settlers who wanted no Negroes in Kansas , abolitionist terrorists like John Brown began murdering the families of Southern farmers . |
| 4 | He sounded almost like the gentlemen who brought their horses to be shod at Samson 's smithy , except for a slight foreign way of leaning on the wrong part of the words . |
| 5 | ‘ Monsieur n'a pas faim , ’ said the maid who brought their soup . |
| 6 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 7 | Edwin Pettigrew was , like his sister , of sandy colouring , a kindly-looking man more interested in animals than in human beings , though he was an expert at calming and reassuring the agitated and often hysterical women who brought their animals to see him . |
| 8 | She stayed at the Xenias Melathron , a little old hotel that has since been pulled down , but has an after-life in her story ‘ The Voices ’ , to which the amusing waiter Polycarp , who brought her breakfast to her , also contributed . |
| 9 | Nearly 70 women responded from 18 countries including Helen Chadwick from Great Britain , several from the USA including Nancy Spero and Yoko Ono who brought her sculpture to the exhibition , Valie Export from Austria , Helen Escobedo from Mexico and Ana Lupas who showed two sculptures from Rumania . |
| 10 | ‘ The same messenger , ’ Corbett interjected , ‘ who brought you news that the King intended to travel to Kinghorn ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's a spoof cop movie from the team who brought you Airplane , and if you 've never seen it then do n't sit here reading this élitist drivel — race , hop , limbo or mince to your nearest ‘ Videorama ’ and prepare to BARK with laughter , split your stays , and have the parts refreshed that other sagas can not reach . |
| 12 | I have already mentioned Anselm 's firm refusal to confer about the discipline of the English Church with the papal legate who brought his pallium . |
| 13 | THE reader who brought his children from the US to Britain to be educated is talking nonsense to say our schools are on a par with those in the Third World . |
| 14 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 15 | Fined , the Mexican chief who brought his dog into Britain . |
| 16 | Mr Gaidar , who brought his team into the hall only towards the end of yesterday 's session , told Congress : ‘ This is n't a government of capricious boys and girls . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder who brought our breakfasts , ‘ said the grown-ups . |
| 18 | A humorous view of a wife murderer from the writers who brought us Hancock and Steptoe . |
| 19 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 20 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |