Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Seb groaned , but — with the impressive upper-class confidence in his own innate superiority which always impressed Nutty enormously — waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys who were dragging Jazz down the road by his hair . |
| 3 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 4 | Genscher was received by President Lech Walesa ( who was to visit Germany in the coming months ) , by Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski , and by representatives of the Sejm and the Senate for talks on Polish-German relations , inter-parliamentary contacts , and Poland 's treatment of its German minority . |
| 5 | My partners were Doug Scott , squeezing climbing into a packed lecture programme , and David Harris , the author of Vortex , who was visiting Britain for the Boardman-Tasker Award ceremonies . |
| 6 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 7 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |
| 8 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 9 | The place , then , a most unlikely nursery for one who was to play Hamlet at the Old Vic , Arthur in Camelot , both of them a record number of times on Broadway , a man who was to understand claret and enjoy meetings of several kinds with several princesses . |