Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] who [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned to run but slipped over , and that was too much even for my sister who came to my rescue and dared them to throw any more . |
| 2 | It never occurred to me that my mother would die , and it was a profound shock when she did , After a year or so my father left the Army and remarried a Highland lass who seemed to adore me , but did not seem to take to my sister who lived with an aunt . |
| 3 | Second , there was plenty of backup : my husband , my sister who arrived from Australia , and a good local GP . |
| 4 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
| 5 | In tears , I fetched my father who went to work with a shovel and retrieved most of the contents . |
| 6 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 7 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 8 | I could see that the old bull was not going to be forced to drink , and he protested by coming after my father-in-law who made for the post . |
| 9 | It was my Maker who offended against me , acting so unfatherly against one who never asked to be born in any unnatural way . |
| 10 | ‘ It is the only thing I have left from my family who died in the famine . ’ |
| 11 | And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading . |
| 12 | That day the bones of the brother of my mother who went to the bottom of the sea will rise up through the green waters , and when they meet the air they will take on his flesh again , and he will swim far up into the endless air and he will meet the old man , free of his dust walking in the air , and my mother flying , and me flying , and I will be laughing . |
| 13 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 14 | Encouraged by several physicians and apothecaries , including Rand , Douglas , Sherard and Mead , and aided by her spouse who contributed to the text from prison , she produced in 1737–8 A curious Herbal , containing 500 Cuts of the most Useful Plants now used in the Practice of Physic . |
| 15 | The Ayrshire widow suing a Tobacco giant on behalf of her husband who died from lung cancer earlier this year says she 's amazed and delighted that her lawyers have agreed to work for nothing . |
| 16 | And when Sam was snapped topless in Majorca , it was her father who struggled with a photographer to try to save her honour . |
| 17 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 18 | Almost every month it seems as though some sad parent on the local news is bemoaning the loss of their teenager who died in this way . |
| 19 | And a Kent farm labourer 's daughter recalled with special intimacy her grandmother who lived into her nineties , only moving from her own cottage in her last five years . |
| 20 | Trent held Mariana tight round the shoulders , blocking her view of her grandfather who knelt at the lavatory bowl as if in prayer . |
| 21 | She was butchered at the wheel of the vehicle by her attacker who hung through the passenger window , repeatedly slicing her with the panga . |
| 22 | We asked headteachers to consider those pupils in their school who fell into the category of unauthorised absentees , and with the help of guidance staff allot these pupils into descriptive groupings . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh ! ’ gasped Rachel , her gaze darting to her father who was standing behind the wheelchair and her mother who stood beside them . |
| 24 | It was a man wearing an overcoat pulled high around his neck who succeeded in getting the chance to speak as Gerrard thrust the microphone at him . |
| 25 | There seemed to be a leader , an enormously tall man with a long , heavy , gold chain round his neck who bore in front of him a large picture of somebody , framed in rough wood . |
| 26 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 27 | In 1983 , for example , the Toronto Star gave a moving account of an evangelical Christian minister and his wife who went through a painful rethinking of their position on abortion after experiencing an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 28 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 29 | Bomber 's Moon is about his father who died on a wartime bombing mission before he was born . |
| 30 | Martyn Lewis , defending , said : ‘ The defendant was devastated by the loss of his father who died within 10 days of this tragic accident . ’ |