Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
2 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
3 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
4 | A teenager who kidnapped his former girlfriend and her stepfather at gunpoint last year has admitted making more threats . |
5 | A man who sported a sports car and sideboards , a season ticket and a sculpture teacher , a man who produced his own series and had a bachelor pad , a Peter Sarstedt LP and a past ? |
6 | THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears . |
7 | But thanks to the ingenuity of Edward Adeane , who planned it all , no one found them . |
8 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
9 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
10 | Knitters were pressed to rent the stocking frames and those who owned their own found it hard to get work when times were less busy . |
11 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
12 | Rather , Geoffrey Dear — the Chief Constable who disbanded his own Serious Crimes Squad for malpractice and then , in a shock decision , joined the ranks of Her Majesty 's Inspectors policing the police — is the man who exerts the most influence . |
13 | Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration . |
14 | Some bands who made their own recordings took the opportunity to encourage others to follow their example . |
15 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
16 | He was adept with his hands , a talented artist , and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods . |
17 | On behalf of Council 80 of Stockport , I would like to thank everyone who made it such a successful evening . |
18 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
19 | We are to drink beer , eat cheese , get herded around in coaches , grab every photo-opportunity with ‘ the two lads who made it all possible ’ and officially launch the new Carter long-player ( EC-standard length ) ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ . |
20 | His partner was the curvaceous Jill Ireland , who made it all seem no less exciting to her than would have been an embrace from Gregory Peck . |
21 | Today the President of Guinness PLC is Benjamin Guinness ( 8 ) ( b. 1937 ) , the third Earl of Iveagh and the sixth direct descendant of the man who made it all possible , over two hundred years ago . |
22 | ‘ Jaz ’ was one of those people who got his own way . |
23 | This bloke 's got two Lambourginis in the garage and er the latest BMW all from , he said he works seven days a week for it he said but he , you know , he 's just an ordinary bloke who got it all just working |
24 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
25 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
26 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
27 | Paul Marland is one of thousands who used his own personal wealth of at least a quarter of a million pounds to become a Lloyds name . |
28 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
29 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
30 | Oh what , who taped him that ? |