Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years ago , two art historians , Francesca Capelletti and Laura Testa , published an article which shows that Caravaggio was paid for this ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ in 1602 by one Ciriaco Mattei ; that the painting descended in the same family until 1802 , when it was bought , together with other pictures , by the Scottish Hamilton Nisbet family , who sold it again in Dodwell 's rooms in Edinburgh in 1921 . |
| 2 | The men who attacked us just now all have mounts . |
| 3 | In April 1805 at Low Wood Green met the celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Young , who entertained him highly with their singing . |
| 4 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Munro was Arnold 's caddie , a nice man but he could n't handle Palmer , who asked him too many questions . |
| 6 | Yanto , who would do anything for anybody who asked him nicely , also had a very short fuse when it came to insults , especially in front of witnesses . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ shouted Sir Thomas , ‘ and who asked you anyway ? ’ |
| 8 | But Lily , who avoided her socially when at home , found it difficult to cope with her here . |
| 9 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 10 | Eileen Laughton , a former Panel member who respected him greatly said he was worried about the pressure that was likely to be put on him if he did n't toe the local authority line . |
| 11 | ‘ I was close to your father during his great crisis , ’ she said , ‘ and it was I who led him astray . |
| 12 | At the end , Josey settles down with Eastwood 's then-girlfriend Sondra Locke , whose public split with him is reflected in Unforgiven by the death of Bill Munny 's wife , the influence who led him away from violence . |
| 13 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 14 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 15 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 16 | There is a biography of Jasper Carrot which I can hardly wait not to read , there is a biography of Cliff Richard written by a woman who hugged him once 20 years ago ( ‘ I would have married him if he 'd asked me ’ ) . |
| 17 | Worsening results have prompted a discussion between Brady and the directors , who appointed him nearly two years ago . |
| 18 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 19 | Tommy wiped his mouth and handed the bottle to Nathan , who passed it straight to Pete . |
| 20 | On 29 September 1980 I purchased a house for £9,000 cash from my father , who owned it exclusively in his own name from 1968 when I , along with him , my mother and sister , came to live there . |
| 21 | A ( 1931 ) nineteen thirty one Lagonda sports car has been bought at auction by a man who owned it more than forty years ago . |
| 22 | These revelations come from talking to Personnel managers who admitted they often have to force over-stressed employees to have time off . |
| 23 | Those who met him never forgot it . |
| 24 | And should not those in Sponging Houses , who squandered what properly belonged to their creditors , be removed to the actual prison ? |
| 25 | Then , said he , ‘ Would the comrade who interrupted me please stand up ! ’ |
| 26 | Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome . |
| 27 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 28 | ‘ But not that it should be me who made it so . |
| 29 | But the proudest and loudest reception is for the players and the manager who got them there . |
| 30 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |