Example sentences of "who [vb past] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 2 | Built , as Penry had told her , almost a century before , its mellow brick and gleaming windows blended into the picturesque hillside , welcome in every line of it to the girl who gazed at it in bliss as she turned off the engine . |
| 3 | This was condemned in western countries , but feeling against jews was common everywhere : Freud 's father had his hat knocked off by a Gentile who shouted at him ‘ Jew , get off the pavement ’ , and Jewish shops were smashed by miners in Tredegar in 1911 . |
| 4 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 5 | The chilli also meant that Praeger had been just a wire man with orders not to kill anybody who came at him just blind them and run . |
| 6 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 7 | He turned and looked speculatively at Ajayi , who frowned at him and said , |
| 8 | Zlorf stared at Twoflower , who grinned at him . |
| 9 | I fell in love with a boy with a crew cut who came to mend our roof with the window cleaner who grinned at me in my rollers and the boy in Vallance 's record shop with a sport face . |
| 10 | It was picked up by Isay , who glanced at him . |
| 11 | Hawkins read it , smiled broadly and handed it to Talbot , who glanced at it , smiled in turn and read it out aloud . |
| 12 | Joolz was cautioned by the police for swearing at a heckler who swore at her . |
| 13 | By kneeling on the pavement , we could see the two furnaces being stoked but this innocent pastime was cut short by the boilerman who swore at us ! |
| 14 | For example , one informative sentence used by Warman was In the park , the man saw the boy who waved at him . |
| 15 | Do n't know who that lady , looking lady who waved at me is ? |
| 16 | I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop . |
| 17 | He took the arm of the girl who stared at him with shock-darkened eyes . |
| 18 | He stared back at the Cages , he glanced up at the trees behind them , he stared at the people who stared at him . |
| 19 | I DO N'T think actress Zoe Wanamaker need have been embarrassed when , out jogging , she stared back at two people who stared at her . |
| 20 | She was lifting her hand to knock again when the door was flung open and she was confronted by the woman she 'd seen outside who stared at her defiantly , her painted face incongruous against the fall of grimy hair over her shoulders . |
| 21 | She stared at Monica , who stared at her . |
| 22 | She passed Jill who stared at her , almost pleadingly , as if Alice were a murderer , or thug , who could attack her . |
| 23 | There were also a great many red squirrels in the forest , delicate little creatures with tufted ears who looked at them fearlessly from the high branches . |
| 24 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 25 | When she was examined , she did indeed have a nasty attack of herpes , but the doctor who looked at her noticed that she was as brown as a berry . |
| 26 | He could n't bear to see Daniel Marsh fawning round his wife like a besotted mongrel , and any other man who looked at her was to be immediately discouraged . |
| 27 | But , as her shirt grew soaked in sweat , she was obliged to edge nearer Angel , who looked at her as if she were a tarantula . |
| 28 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 29 | Not only had she a history of past Amativeness ( the fact that she was a " fallen woman " and so forth ) , but anyone who looked at her could see Amativeness written all over her . |
| 30 | As it was , she was greeted at the door of the ramshackle house by a complete stranger , a young man who looked at her oddly . |