Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 2 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 3 | I had a horse who loved going on the beach and in the sea at Weston-Super-Mare but hated puddles and tiny streams . |
| 4 | Kellner says one possible explanation is that the 20 per cent of the electorate who refused to respond to the exit polls were disproportionately Tory , or that some voters lied , or both . |
| 5 | With their SOE connexions , the SSRF found a dory more suitable than canoes when landing an agent who wanted to melt into the local scene rather than stagger ashore dripping wet from a canoe . |
| 6 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 7 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 8 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 9 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 10 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 11 | The cube contained the works of a poet who had died in the distant town where Cley was born . |
| 12 | It seems certain that the blend of characteristics at Great Witcombe is attributable to a mosaicist who had worked on the St. Nicholas Street mosaic . |
| 13 | Dr Richard Webb , an American nuclear physicist who had worked on the early submarine PWRs , produced scenarios which showed that a land area about the size of the British Isles could have to be abandoned in the wake of a catastrophic accident . |
| 14 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 15 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 16 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 17 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 18 | Tribute was paid to Wally Heath , a long-serving member of the committee who had died during the year . |
| 19 | His appointment on a two-year contract will disappoint David Hobbs , the caretaker who had applied for the job on a permanent basis , but Chris Caisley , the Odsal chairman , hinted yesterday that patience might bring a reward for the Northern captain . |
| 20 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 21 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 22 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |
| 23 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 24 | I said , like the child who had played with the dolls and bears , ‘ Syl would bring me breakfast in bed , only his mother would n't let him . ’ |
| 25 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 26 | She heard the break before she actually saw the child who had fallen at the winning end of a tug-of-war rope . |
| 27 | Significantly , Lee was Taiwan-born and therefore representative of a newer tendency within the KMT , which had traditionally been dominated by older conservative elements from the mainland who had arrived after the communist victory there . |
| 28 | The censor , Jernej Kopitar , a Slovene who had worked in the household of Baron Žiga Zois , the patron of the Slovene literary revival ( see above , pp. 53–4 ) , became a close friend of Vuk . |
| 29 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 30 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |