Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 2 | After thirty years , he could come face to face with the soldier who had spared his life . |
| 3 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 4 | The church floor was swept and washed clean , thanks to Cecily the courtesan who had earned her pennies honestly by scrubbing every inch . |
| 5 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 6 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 7 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 8 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 9 | If that run continues against a Rangers side who have won their last 15 games , re-confirmed Skol Cup winners and supercharged by the prolific McCoist , then not even the attacking flair which destroyed Stuttgart 4-1 at Elland Road five weeks ago may be enough . |
| 10 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 11 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 12 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 13 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 14 | Other reviewers have commented on the harrowing realism of Madness on trial ( 11 April ) , which portrayed Mary , a schizophrenic who had murdered her mother , and followed her trial and psychiatric assessment . |
| 15 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 16 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 17 | The attacker could have been either Orlick , or the stranger who had shown me the file . |
| 18 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 19 | He refused to comment on whether his organisation was carrying out the interviewing or ‘ disclosure ’ work on the children ; , he merely reiterated that they were involved in offering their assistance in whatever way was required by the department who had contracted them . |
| 20 | The image of God as a cosmic gambler can also be found in Brunain , where a simple peasant and his wife find God to be good doublere , " doubler " , giving them a second beast when they naively give their own cow to the priest who has told them that God repays gifts twofold . |
| 21 | Proud veterans who have contributed to National Insurance for decades are reduced to applying for means-tested benefits along with layabouts , New Age travellers and the like who have contributed nothing . |
| 22 | Who was he , this dark and secret lover who had inflamed her with so great a passion ? |
| 23 | Donna Anna , daughter of the murdered Commendatore , lacks any sense of humour : she is aiming to be a heroine of high drama ; while Donna Elvira , one of Giovanni 's cast-offs , is a genuinely tragic figure : mocked by all and in danger of losing her reason , she remains touchingly faithful to the lover who has abandoned her . |
| 24 | The extracts from a dirty movie fade away and the Inspirals clamber into their Scandia van , delighted with the comments of a Finnish woman journalist who had told them , ‘ You make music that is going somewhere while at the same time standing still and one day it will end in a big BOOM ! ’ |
| 25 | To take a different example you might imagine an adviser who has left herself just enough time to get to a school for a meeting , bombing down the motorway and getting a puncture . |
| 26 | We react as members of our civilisation who have absorbed its values through our education and society . |
| 27 | I 'm telling you as a fact that I 'm the only person in this industry who 's done it . |
| 28 | The Corporal who had fetched me from Lille was shaving in the washroom , wearing only tracksuit bottoms and flipflops ; his back and stomach were covered with a mixture of hair , scars and tattoos . |
| 29 | Sarah Wilson meets Kenneth Richey 's lawyer who has devoted his career to defending on Death Row |
| 30 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |