Example sentences of "[pron] who [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But why would someone who recognised that they were expected to derive the contextual implication that B did n't do the reading go on to produce the utterance in [ 15c ] ?
2 Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch .
3 I mean there is a , I do n't know if anybody saw there was a a programme on , it was actually B B C , erm , this week , it was about somebody who felt that she was very overweight and actually had her stomach stapled !
4 No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band !
5 ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser .
6 Ah right yes so let me see , you were the one who said that you were getting to the S P S S stage or something were you ?
7 Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united .
8 If you recall , I was the one who insisted that you stay . ’
9 He assured anybody who asked that his group was also against violence in furthering its cause .
10 The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son .
11 ‘ I told anyone who asked that she 'd win .
12 Anyone who suggested that his rise to fame was undeservedly achieved by nepotism and favouritism , would be referred by Beatty to a piece in Time magazine which read , ‘ With facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and the mannerisms of James Dean , he is the latest in the line of hostile , moody , sensitive , self-conscious , bright , defensive , stuttering , self seeking and extremely talented actors who have become myths before they are thirty . ’
13 The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . )
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