Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm , and then on the Sunday morning , it was the local tradespeople erm who were taking down the Christmas trees and things , they had to clear up , they did n't have to but they did clear up the mess , it was a disgrace . |
| 2 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 3 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 4 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 5 | The woman who was filling in the form said : ‘ I ca n't put that down — you must remember you are a refugee . ’ |
| 6 | Then she turned , willing Miss Harker , who was holding out the duster , to look at the board . |
| 7 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 8 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 9 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 10 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 11 | She turned to Amy , who was clearing up the dressing trolley . |
| 12 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 13 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 14 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 15 | Elinor asked Buzz , who was adding up the Scrabble score . |
| 16 | Elfed , a sober and upright man who was to become unfairly the sounding board for Richard 's first rebellions . |
| 17 | The CID sergeant thanked her gravely and went to stand beside Jamie who was peering down the embankment , looking pinched . |