Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 2 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 3 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 4 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 5 | I know someone who had that done and then later on they had their voice box taken out , cos he had cancer of the throat , ooh , |
| 6 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 7 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 8 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 9 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 10 | It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me . |
| 11 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 12 | Then she said , ‘ The woman you knew , the one who ran this place , you wo n't find her . ’ |
| 13 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 14 | One who attended these meetings described Hinchley as ‘ an enthusiast , obviously highly strung , quick in thought and rapid in speech , as though his overfilled brain could scarcely get rid of the thoughts and ideas quickly enough — sensitive to a hostile audience but quick to respond to a friendly one ’ . |
| 15 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 16 | No one who played that day will ever forget it . |
| 17 | The one who had both . ’ |
| 18 | No one who witnessed these debates has ever suggested that Lewis played fair . |
| 19 | Never a mention of the one who spent many an hour teaching him the way of things . |
| 20 | If more than one informal carer spent seven or more hours a week on such care then we selected the one who spent most time . |
| 21 | The one who left this week ? ’ |
| 22 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 23 | But of course he he was the only one who thought this , everybody else said , Ah how ridiculous , have him back . |
| 24 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 25 | The one who made most of this influence was Walpole , Prime Minister for 21 years and an effective wheeler-dealer who tended to go beyond mere cogency of argument in persuading the House of Commons to be compliant to his will . |
| 26 | The last was probably his strongest card , and no one who heard this broadcast on May 28th could doubt that it was the one about which he cared the most . |
| 27 | So er she was the one who pointed that fact to me . |
| 28 | Changes of climate have also been investigated during the historic time scale when a range of historical techniques have been utilized , including diaries and records together with sedimentary evidence , and information from faunal remains , archaeology , tree rings and ocean deposits , and G. Manley , a geographer at London University prior to his appointment as the first Professor of Environmental Sciences at Lancaster University , was one who researched many of the obscure details of climatic fluctuations in Western Europe ( e.g. Manley , 1952 ) . |
| 29 | Zach was the only one who showed any real talent and he was more of a performer than an actor . |
| 30 | An example of one who held this latter position is the existentialist theologian of the last generation Rudolf Bultmann . |