Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 2 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 3 | It becomes a great pleasure to read this passage , another justification of those who assured me that A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland remains one of the fundamental works in the literature of travel . |
| 4 | There was the man who had trained his dog to bite Arabs , and who informed us that a dog always knows an Arab by his stink . |
| 5 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 6 | The teacher would haul him up and over , her angry voice taunting him , and he would try and remember that somewhere there was a mum who loved him and a dad who called him Tiger . |
| 7 | Now , the same people who discarded him as a kid are the ones who want to shake his hand . |
| 8 | It was he , above all , who had determined to tackle the Scottish question head on , he who wanted it and a broad defence of the British constitution to be at the heart of the Tory campaign . |