Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 3 | They were the province of the Suristani who maintained the conduits and oversaw the filtration columns . |
| 4 | In practice ‘ reasonable consideration for other road users ’ can be proved by a statement from a witness who saw the actions which amount to lack of consideration . |
| 5 | The only witness who saw the women on the beach is another tourist , a South African businessman named Ockert Cameron . |
| 6 | Finally , they consulted an educational psychologist who advised the parents that , in view of their constant travelling Emma 's needs would best be served by a boarding school to provide her with some stability . |
| 7 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 8 | A critic who saw the rushes said : ‘ It will probably not be seen by Kylie 's younger fans because of its content . |
| 9 | Her companion in the driver 's seat who controlled the gears and the foot controls was also held to be driving . |
| 10 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 12 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 13 | Oh and the bread again it you had your dough men on the bread who made the doughs . |
| 14 | The administrator phoned the estate owner and brought in the National Guard who captured the leaders of the union from their homes one night . |
| 15 | That lady who won the pools and said she was going to spend , spend , spend , might have been saying she was going to You Know What , You Know What , You Know What , for the disapproval she found heaped on her . |
| 16 | The lady who fixed the appointments had said 6 o'clock without any messing about . |
| 17 | He said in his North Thanet constituency : ‘ If the manner in which he was contracted gives cause for concern then those culpable are those within the BBC management who made the arrangements . |
| 18 | So long as Finland remained tranquil , Menshikov was prepared to listen to advisers in the Grand Duchy who put the interests of the local population before those of Russia . |
| 19 | Question Who helped the customers ? |
| 20 | The application must state the grounds of the application and should be made to the judge or district judge who tried the proceedings and ( save with leave ) not more than 14 days after the trial and on not less than seven clear days ' notice to the opposite party . |
| 21 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
| 22 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |
| 23 | ‘ A professional assassin who climbed the walls and murdered the woman without anyone catching sight of him . ’ |
| 24 | His demeanour however , was closer to the big businessman than the professional comedian , so there was always the lingering suspicion that he was really the benevolent boss who made the directors laugh at board meetings and probably did conjuring tricks at the weekend . |
| 25 | It was his sister who found the bodies . |
| 26 | THE Pulitzer-prize winning author John Hersey , a Second World War correspondent who captured the horrors of the first atomic bomb attack in his book Hiroshima , died yesterday in Florida . |
| 27 | Massenga closed the doors then climbed into the cab beside the driver who engaged the gears and pulled out into the road . |
| 28 | Sennett was the initial genius who taught the others that anything ought to be tried that produced laughter and that the ultimate test was whether any movie actually worked for audiences . |
| 29 | They have been more willing than other historians to accept at face value his retrospective remark of 1824 : " The branch who broke the frames never contemplated any such thing as the combining . " |
| 30 | It might even satisfy the drab clerk who wrote the regulations . |