Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh pn] [was/were] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were again treated to the usual excellent Dunmurry hospitality and cordially welcomed by the Club Captain , Bob Gourley who was a guest at the Competition and meal . |
| 2 | The Elland Road club have previously shown an interest in Deane who was a £3m target for Chelsea last season . |
| 3 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 4 | We often used to squat on them until chased away by Mr. Dean who was a horse dealer . |
| 5 | Today 's reading was written nearly 400 years ago by a poet called John Donne who was a clergyman , the Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral in 1621 . |
| 6 | Erm I think she was a teacher , she 's got a brother Jim who was a housemaster at School in Suffolk , last I heard of him , I saw him mm probably in the nineteen f fifties I should think . |
| 7 | Harriet married a William who was a gamekeeper . |
| 8 | Harriet married er William who was a gamekeeper . |
| 9 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 10 | They leased it to a man called William who was a goldsmith . |
| 11 | Leaving Mrs Caskie , Maggie waved across the road to Clarice McKechnie who was a year older than her and was engaged to a lad from Oban whom she was marrying early in the new year . |
| 12 | I love the story about King Hussein who was a cadet there . |
| 13 | well who was the senior director at in nineteen eighty nine , er , er apart of course Mr who was a member of your board |
| 14 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 15 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 16 | The Abbey of St Mary at Kirkstead was in fact founded in 1139 by Hugo Brito , the son of Eudo who was a companion of William the Conqueror . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone named Shirley who was a care assistant at Chestnut House twenty years ago , ’ she explained . |
| 18 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 19 | He probably came from Rothbury in Northumberland and the Hugh of Rothbury who was a clerk of the Common Bench justice , William of Brompton , in the 1280s may have been his brother . |
| 20 | ‘ Suspicious circs , ’ said Bush who was a man of few words . |
| 21 | Vinoba Bhave who was a disciple of Gandhi and started the Bhoodan movement ( by which rich Indians were persuaded to donate land to the poor ) wrote of Bhavana in this episode : |
| 22 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 23 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 24 | And there was Chernayev who was a thief , and Byrkin who had been a naval Petty Officer , and Mamarev who they said was an informer . |
| 25 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 26 | THE merest mention of the word Hippodrome here a fortnight ago brought the memories flooding back to Derek Mason who was a regular at the theatre from a very young age . |
| 27 | And then we there was a chap with another with another Opel who was a bit of engineering type , so he took my wheels off and cleaned the pads for me you see . |
| 28 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 29 | Let us , however , confine our attention for a while to Polybius who was a specialist in constitutional and military history and who for four centuries conditioned modern thinking about Republican Rome . |
| 30 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |