Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept her attention half on what she did , half on Jasper , who suddenly raised his arms . |
| 2 | A figure moved to her right , a man in overalls who suddenly braced his legs apart , and raised a gun . |
| 3 | Miss Merchiston 's eyes glanced at Benedict , who merely raised his brows , and then passed to the paper in the lawyer 's hand and there remained . |
| 4 | This , together with a gremlin who mischievously deflected his fingers away from the right notes — often at crucial if surprisingly undemanding points in the musical argument — added piquant harmonies and dissonances undreamed of by his composers . |
| 5 | He was a magnificent surgical technician , a perfectionist who constantly improved his techniques and ingenious in developing many new surgical instruments and splints . |
| 6 | Even the popularity of these lesser mortals could not drive aristocrats completely from the stage , particularly in those countries where major theatres continued to be subsidised by Royal Treasuries who largely dictated what choreographers could produce . |
| 7 | Or the nannies and the nursemaids who lately pushed their prams up and down , and gossiped under the plane trees ? |
| 8 | The recognition of parents who intentionally harmed their children could not be easily accommodated within the understanding of what these services were there to do : the scandals and the subsequent enquiries revealed time and again that social workers could not see what to lay people was painfully obvious , and what lawyers and other professionals ( with the benefit of hindsight ) constructed to be their duty to recognize . |
| 9 | It was canvassed on a number of occasions in the nineteenth century , but its most influential advocate was Alfred Wegener who intially presented his ideas in 1912 . |
| 10 | On the other , that he was not forgotten-that there were pockets of admirers who still cherished his books throughout the long years when they were out of print . |
| 11 | The campaign was supported by a disparate band of politically astute Italians who loyally buried their differences in order to fight for unity : Carlo Alberto , the Piedmontian king of Sardinia , and Camillo de Cavour , his Prime Minister , Giuseppe Mazzini , an anti-monarchist from Genoa , and Guiseppe Garibaldi , a romantic , enigmatic guerilla leader born in Nice . |
| 12 | Doctor Gysi , also calling for ‘ social integration ’ of Stasi members , told the party 's congress : ‘ There were many honest comrades in the Stasi who loyally fulfilled their duties and who were not able to choose the tasks they were given . ’ |
| 13 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 14 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 15 | Packages of that rare onion-skin typing paper which made my erasures of mistypings so easy came from your mother , who also sent you boxes of drugs , chiefly Dexedrine , those shocking-pink amphetamines which , I later discovered , are bad for the heart . |
| 16 | An energetic girl , she spent the day swimming , jogging , cycling and hiking before retiring to their tent , blissfully ignorant that the thrust of Floss 's nightly attentions was directed not at her but the succuba who also haunted my dreams . |
| 17 | Among the shocks was the departure of Eldorado 's creator Julia Smith , who also brought us EastEnders . |
| 18 | I saw two nurses who also thought my medicines were very amusing . |
| 19 | In a 1963 survey , Butler and Stokes found that among those with a ‘ middle class ’ self-image and who also considered themselves partisans of the major parties 79 per cent were Tory and 21 per cent Labour supporters . |
| 20 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 21 | I felt like those women and men who openly sold their favours . |
| 22 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 23 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 24 | He knows very well , because he is against a single currency in principle , like his predecessor , the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) , who clearly expressed his views — which , I think , are shared by the present Chancellor — in an article in one of the tabloid newspapers . |
| 25 | It would surely be over-hasty to argue that a mother , for example , who clearly preferred her showjumpers , or even her collection of books , to her children , was necessarily in the wrong ; she might nonetheless treat her offspring very well . |
| 26 | There was a description of the ‘ three interesting females ’ who nearly lost their lives on the hills . |
| 27 | Altogether Eliot , who later offered his services to the Ministry of Information , which was founded on 5 September , two days after the outbreak of war , believed that a great deal could meanwhile be done by way of the spoken and written word . |
| 28 | The bright headlights confused Curly Top , who now held his hands up to shield his eyes . |
| 29 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 30 | The servants were good but simple people , local peasants who simply shook their heads and stared wide-eyed at this powerful lord from London . |