Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily Davison and friends such as Mary Leigh , Rose Lamartine Yates , Elinor Penn-Gaskell , Edith Mansell-Moullin , Mabel Capper , and Gladys Evans represented the socialist and pacifist opposition within the WSPU : women who were nationally known and admired and consequently could not be banished from the organization . |
| 2 | Lord Aldington , 75 , is seeking damages from Nigel Watts , a property developer , who circulated a pamphlet accusing him of arranging every detail of the repatriation of 70,000 Yugoslav and Russian men , women and children who were subsequently tortured and massacred . |
| 3 | Sows were brought from miles around for mating , while settings of eggs were supplied for broody village hens , who were never fed but had to pick up their food from the village or the rice field . |
| 4 | In Joliet , Illinois , a witness under hypnosis was asked to ‘ stop the video and zoom in ’ on the face of the criminal and he managed to give a detailed description of a man , who was duly arrested and charged . |
| 5 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |