Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 2 | Breeze , who had hatched a good many herself , quickened her steps to a run , for her two friends were waiting . |
| 3 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
| 4 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 5 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |