Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] who [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Ben Crenshaw who persuaded him to enter for the 1981 Open . |
| 2 | Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act . |
| 3 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 4 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 5 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |
| 6 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 7 | The statement follows a claim by Sinn Fein councillor Fra McCann who said he had received complaints about dealers selling ecstasy at the council-owned concert hall . |
| 8 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 9 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 10 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 11 | Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has paid tribute to the staff of RAF Lyneham who gave him help and support after his release . |
| 12 | It was Frank Foley who told him this , in his small office in Broadway . |
| 13 | Bond is still despised by Burnley supporters who blame him for the club 's demise after his season in charge eight years ago . |
| 14 | Ivanisevic has the backing of Boris Becker , three-times All England King who edged him out in the 1990 semis . |
| 15 | Einstein was fortunate in having a friend Marcel Grossmann who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and who worked with him until Einstein left Zurich in 1914 . |
| 16 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
| 17 | I ask whether this property should belong to the trustee-heir , Captain Valerius Maximus , or to Mallius Seneca who says he is the uncle of the deceased boy . |
| 18 | He was , with Giulio Argan who predeceased him by a month , and Federico Zeri , perhaps the leading opinion-former in the Italian art world , known to the general public from his articles in L'Espresso and then , from 1977 , La Repubblica . |
| 19 | At university it was initially Robert Hewison who persuaded him that ‘ we can make money out of telling jokes . ’ |
| 20 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
| 21 | Prepare for a far-fetched tale of a prospective bird-breeder called ‘ Rambo ’ , a burly former Yorkshire miner who admits he prefers his ducks buried under a mountain of cranberry sauce . |
| 22 | Prepare for a far-fetched tale of a prospective bird-breeder called ‘ Rambo ’ , a burly former Yorkshire miner who admits he prefers his ducks buried under a mountain of cranberry sauce . |
| 23 | Fulcher lunged at Mr Leonard who pushed him into a bedroom and then took the knife from him . |
| 24 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 25 | The direction of his career , however , was finally determined by Sonia Orwell who helped him obtain a job with the World Bank in Washington . |
| 26 | The Association has already held talks with junior health minister Stephen Dorrell who said he fully appreciated the valuable service provided by volunteer drivers . |
| 27 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 28 | Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable . |
| 29 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 30 | On The Other Hand used to be with Downpatrick trainer Jeremy Maxwell and is now with National expert Gordon Richards who bought him out of John Mulherne 's yard recently . |