Example sentences of "[pron] who have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains .
2 Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’
3 I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football .
4 Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’
5 The police had been called by someone who 'd spotted the flames .
6 Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder .
7 Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them .
8 When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present .
9 He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
10 But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity .
11 Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ .
12 We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ .
13 Klein had played an important role under Wharton-Tigar , who had described him as ‘ completely reliable , someone who had performed an important service for the British ’ .
14 She was angry , for sure , but a closer look would have revealed a heaviness in the mouth , a darkness under her eyes : the face of someone who had cried a good deal recently , and had some crying yet to do .
15 It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job .
16 I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer .
17 But quite often grown-ups do n't know how to deal with someone who 's lost a partner
18 someone who 's done a streak from a sauna to outdoors in the South Pole , mm , that 's enough to turn your nibbles on
19 ‘ These firms want people with a more general practice background , who can talk to their clients in their own language , not someone who 's done the audit for three large plcs . ’
20 Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’
21 You can go from being a total novice to someone who 's got a reasonably good idea by the end of one week .
22 Yeah , I 'll probably think of someone who 's got a burner .
23 It was really interesting to hear from a personal view , as well , actually , you know , I mean rainforests are to most of us just something we see on the television or we see pictures , it 's sort of a rather romantic idea , or a mythic idea , it 's lovely to talk to someone who 's got a much more overall view of the whole problem .
24 Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ?
25 People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time .
26 When you meet the likes of Mabel Brigge , you quickly recognise someone who has made a pact with Satan and acquired occult powers !
27 This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed .
28 But what of the expectation of life of someone who has reached the age of forty ?
29 In addition , being termed ‘ skilled ’ often simply means that the worker is carrying out a job traditionally performed by someone who has undertaken an apprenticeship and is therefore a craft worker by training .
30 I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her .
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