Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 2 | Then there was the ever-present Mrs Parker-Bowles who seemed to know everything they were doing almost before they had done it . |
| 3 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 4 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 5 | Asked if he knew who DID write it he added : ‘ I do n't intend to make further inquiries . ’ |
| 6 | I thought that he lacked confidence , that for a person who had achieved what he had the composure was n't there . |
| 7 | Building on investigations by Reginald Allender Smith , who had detected what he felt were underground streams crossing beneath standing stones , Guy Underwood distinguished three types of dowsable line in the landscape : ‘ water-lines ’ , ‘ track-lines ’ and ‘ aquastats ’ . |
| 8 | He asked who had given her them , and she said they were a present from her mother . |
| 9 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 10 | A good illustration of the difference between the two types of thought is given by the two National Diploma students who had analysed what they wanted from a job when they had finished at college . |
| 11 | The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done . |
| 12 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |
| 13 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 14 | There was no place for a young man of humbler origins who had shown what he could do by his own energy and determination . |
| 15 | In his place the cool , detached Dane who had taken nothing she had n't been prepared to give — and given nothing she had n't been prepared to take . |
| 16 | ‘ Someone who wanted to do what you 've just done , ’ I said as I followed him inside . |
| 17 | Plato 's claims , for instance , that his work enabled him to ‘ rise above ideology and the immediacy of mundane affairs ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) have been accepted faithfully by classicists who wanted to believe what he said because of its significance for their position in and views of their own society . |
| 18 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 19 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |