Example sentences of "[pron] who [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 2 | And it was I who stood in his way — I , who professed to want his success as much as he … . |
| 3 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 4 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 5 | Wherever the feather came from , it must almost certainly have been put in his room by someone who knew of his visit to the lake . |
| 6 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 7 | The ugly , unwanted question appeared in her mind : did she really want to live with someone who lied to her ? |
| 8 | Penry was unlikely to look kindly on someone who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row . |
| 9 | About being a surname of someone who went to my junior school . |
| 10 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 11 | He was glad he had at last found someone who believed in his natural superiority . |
| 12 | There were other legits she might have bribed or bullied into a similar sharing , but the stairs and the other dusty corners of the World were safer for someone who lived by her knife and her wits . |
| 13 | For someone who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak . |
| 14 | The trustee or personal representative may , inter alia , deal in the securities to which that information relates if his trades are based on the advice of someone who appeared to him to be an appropriate person for whom to seek such advice and who did not seem to him to be prohibited by ss.1 , 2 , 4 , or 5 from dealing . |
| 15 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 16 | For a moment she thought it was Scathach himself who came towards her ; her mind was full of the vision from the oak tree , of the young man , identically dressed , bleeding out his life … |
| 17 | ‘ And you are sure it was Marius Steen himself who spoke to you ? ’ |
| 18 | His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him . |
| 19 | He gave the fatal arrow to Freyja , the Goddess of Love who then kissed everyone who passed beneath it and so the mistletoe became the emblem of peace and love . |
| 20 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 21 | Some days everyone who wrote with their left hand automatically received two lengths of the corridor , and on other days it was people whose name began with the letter ‘ S' ’ . |
| 22 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 23 | If everyone who agreed with us wrote to his or her MP , no government could hold out against us ! |
| 24 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 25 | He made no reference to the separation and everyone who spoke to him avoided the subject . |
| 26 | It is important to see her occasional contretemps with staff within the context of her relationship with Bernard ; almost everyone who worked with her was aware that she had two , sometimes quite distinct , sides . |
| 27 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 28 | No-one who looked at him could meet his gaze . |
| 29 | The supplier had a number of names and no-one who dealt with him knew , or cared to know , which was the real one . |
| 30 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |