Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , I asked Will who he was . |
| 2 | When I asked Francis who the girl at the gate was he was easy about it . |
| 3 | I asked Betty who lay in the graves . |
| 4 | My meeting ended when I asked Kagan who the gentleman was who was now married to the young lady concerned . |
| 5 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 6 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 7 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 8 | For some decades , working for TDC had been a family tradition , and I met officials who were proud to be third generation prison men . |
| 9 | It depends on your lifestyle you live , though , cos I got friends who are just like ah , I do n't like and you have to excuse my hairy legs running or something , I mean , I just like they 're like this , and they 've got like black hair about this long , and I 'm like oh my God , oh my God , you 're just like |
| 10 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 11 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 12 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 13 | While deciding to stay as independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 14 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 15 | I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . ’ |
| 16 | As they gossiped noisily I followed Granny who was pulling the reluctant animal towards our house . |
| 17 | Lover ‘ I knew others who were HIV positive but people were terrified of being exposed . ’ |
| 18 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 19 | I did n't tell him I knew people who did much weirder things than that . |
| 20 | Jumping probation and knowing where to get mace cannisters — yeah , I knew people who had graduated from that particular school of life . |
| 21 | I knew people who would borrow a video camera , especially if they were throwing a particular kind of party . |
| 22 | I knew people who were punished for speaking Gaelic in the playground in a Lochaber school earlier this century . |
| 23 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 24 | I knew men who simply refused , or at least , found it very awkward , to salute a woman military leader who was their superior in the ranks . |
| 25 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 26 | I saw people who came in pretty straight but who changed their attitudes and opinions drastically . |
| 27 | Whenever possible I chose crews who liked working in the north and they always backed me up well . |
| 28 | I remembered others who had died of it : a sister-in-law , a colleague at work in the days when I commuted to London , and two neighbours . |
| 29 | I pitied friends who were married , had children , were tied . |
| 30 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |