Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imelda , who vigorously protested her innocence of all crimes , continued to suggest that she wished to return to her homeland in order to honour her husband 's dying wish by interring his body in the Philippines . |
| 2 | The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth . |
| 3 | It was yesterday hailed by the man who latterly oversaw its construction as ‘ one of the jewels in the crown of the Trident programme ’ . |
| 4 | Such fields could have attracted the more plodding Webb , too , who slowly worked her way from relatively High Society — the only one of nine sisters to marry ‘ down ’ — into social research , the Fabian powerhouse and the formation of social policy in committee rather than cabinet . |
| 5 | With Kylie at her most vulnerable this was also the time when those who most despised her success happily fuelled rumours that she was anorexic . |
| 6 | In this respect the attitude of both England and Wales , who wholeheartedly support their student representatives , is both wide and commendable . |
| 7 | who nervously pats his hair , |
| 8 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 9 | She fought her attacker , who eventually seized her plastic bag and ran off . |
| 10 | Also , there 's been Strawberry Switchblade , Strawberry Park , and The Strawberry Hill Boys , who eventually shortened their name to The Strawbs in order to become famous and sign Rick Wakeman . |
| 11 | Unlike his mother and father , who rarely make their presence felt on anything , he is not constrained by protocol . |
| 12 | Masterminding the event is an art history student , Daniel Marks , who successfully fought his way back to health after being diagnosed as having testicular cancer at the age of 17 . |
| 13 | FLYPAST IS OFFERING THREE TRIAL FLIGHT LESSONS IN THE ANDREW EDIE T-6 TO THE LUCKY READERS WHO SUCCESSFULLY ENTER OUR COMPETITION . |
| 14 | Alexeyev claimed Kurlovich , who successfully defended his super-heavyweight title in Barcelona , had tested positive for steroids just before the Games and was ‘ zero ’ without them . |
| 15 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 16 | Ho 's appeal in his ‘ Letter From Abroad ’ was comprehensive : ‘ rich people , soldiers , workers , peasants , intellectuals , employees , traders , youth and women who warmly love your country ! ’ . |
| 17 | The work of the craftsman is to realise an inner idea in a way that is beautiful , useful and enduring , and as his work is the object of his satisfaction and delight ( " if it were in his power to produce an effect which would know and love him , this he would assuredly do " ) , so man is created for God who alone satisfies his nature . |
| 18 | The goal actually stemmed from a Southend corner but Kenny Irons made a superb interception in his own half and released Morrissey who brilliantly beat his cover before lashing a 16-yard shot high past ‘ keeper Sansome . |
| 19 | Descriptions of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century working class family life as crude and brutal usually attribute the blame to the husband in a manner similar to that of the politicians and policy makers , who so mistrusted his commitment to work and hence to provide . |
| 20 | You know there was a brother of the Order who so contrived her departure and asked Aldhelm to help him . |
| 21 | Even more caution has been exercised by the trade union leaders , apart from the NUM 's Arthur Scargill , who only raised his head above the parapet yesterday to demand the repeal of all ‘ anti-union ’ legislation under a Labour government . |
| 22 | And one pub landlord who only had his pub refurbished six months ago , will now have to redecorate again . |
| 23 | But this morning the child , with curly-blonde hair and sad brown eyes , who only knew her name was Debbie , is expected to be reunited with her mother . |
| 24 | Every day the London Evening Standard carried two or three small classified advertisements headed LOANS from lenders who only gave their telephone numbers , viz : |
| 25 | And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees . |
| 26 | This is particularly true of Gertrude who only wants her son to be happy , but her cheerfulness and pleadings with Hamlet only make the situation worse . |
| 27 | A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith . |
| 28 | I have never heard anything so irresponsible and silly ; he does a great disservice to farmers , who rightly put their confidence in the Government , not him , to get it right . |
| 29 | Benton looked at his companion , who merely wrinkled his brow . |
| 30 | Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers . |