Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday .
2 Eventually , she deduced the kid must have gone to find Nathan , who 'd slept in that morning and missed breakfast .
3 In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine .
4 Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me .
5 While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period .
6 But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity .
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