Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that on Friday , 17 March the university press officer interviewed Fleischmann and Pons , who were even then in the process of revising their preliminary note , and the office had a press release ready by the Monday morning . |
| 2 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 3 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 4 | There was an agitated rumble from the two committee men , who were n't entirely in the picture . |
| 5 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 6 | The conviction could be even more serious for Dr Bromley , 48 , who was not even in the surgery at the time . |
| 7 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 8 | The faint gay menace of music , issuing from juke boxes and radios , surrounded her , and it seemed that there was nobody , out of all those hundreds before her gaze , who was not there in the search of amusement — an amusement shallow , elusive , shapeless , all-embracing . |
| 9 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |