Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] who [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The other side of the gaiter was evidenced by Archbishop William Temple who found them ‘ the most comfortable leg coverings I have ever worn ’ . |
| 2 | It was Ben Crenshaw who persuaded him to enter for the 1981 Open . |
| 3 | From there she returned to London to do war work , also accepting commissions as a free-lance illustrator on the basis of which she approached William Johnstone who invited her on to his staff . |
| 4 | It was an early example of her sensitivity to the needs of others , a quality noticed by her headmistress , Miss Rudge who awarded her the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school in her last term in 1977 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle . |
| 7 | Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’ |
| 8 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 9 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence . |
| 13 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 14 | Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has paid tribute to the staff of RAF Lyneham who gave him help and support after his release . |
| 15 | Gay film making has arrived in Cork in earnest , the first Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival being afforded a regal launch in the person of Nell McCafferty who saw it as ‘ a further exploration of our sexuality ’ with the attendant attraction of ‘ adding to the gaiety of the nation ’ . |
| 16 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 17 | It was Frank Foley who told him this , in his small office in Broadway . |
| 18 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 19 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 20 | Lisa was apparently introduced to James Gilbey by her agent 's assistant , Catrina Skepper who invited her to a weekend party in North Yorkshire . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After coffee our final speaker was Dr Findlater who kept us all enthralled by his expertise and enthusiastic approach to the history of human anatomy . |
| 23 | The young Royals flocked to Edina Ronay , along with customers from the world of showbusiness such as Marlon Brando who commissioned them to knit a sweater . |
| 24 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 25 | As it turned out , Kurt Stengel who designed it worked day and night to get the image just right . |
| 26 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was the gentle , bearded Hans Jenisch who told me of his hesitancy before giving the orders to fire torpedoes . |
| 29 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 30 | At university it was initially Robert Hewison who persuaded him that ‘ we can make money out of telling jokes . ’ |