Example sentences of "who [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |
| 2 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 3 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 4 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 5 | It would be the realised dream of a little girl who received a perfect dolls ’ house and then found herself truly able to walk into it . |
| 6 | Pub landlord John Payne , 47 , who joined a dozen regulars for the trip to the Black Sheep Brewery in Masham , North Yorks , said : ‘ We would n't have gone if we had realised . |
| 7 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 8 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 9 | And one of the six Tory MPs who signed a critical Commons motion today on V A T on fuel , came to the rally to deliver this warning to the government . |
| 10 | Erm when one of our friends , who was a writer for the local press , headlined it , The cutter who walked a thousand miles together , before he got called up . . |
| 11 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 12 | Imperial 's George Whalley and Tuscan 's Ken Cox , and their wives , met the director general of the BSC James Tye , and comedian and musician Roy Castle , who sent a special greetings message to everyone at Wedgwood . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 14 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 15 | Bainbridge pauses only to ‘ thank God for those who died a thousand deaths through poverty . |
| 16 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 17 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
| 18 | There were a great many houses in the vicinity of Hadleigh of the same sort of size as Wyvis Hall and a newspaper would be likely to describe anyone who possessed a few acres as a ‘ landowner ’ . |
| 19 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 20 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 21 | The guidelines contain a foreword by the Data Protection Registrar who had a few reservations about the guidelines . |
| 22 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 23 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 24 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 25 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 26 | ‘ Trouble with this door , ’ Deuce explained to Nicholas , who stood a few paces away sipping his champagne too quickly and ignoring the come-on of one of the dancing youths . |
| 27 | A group of Bosnian refugees who travelled a thousand miles with a relief convoy to escape the war have started their new life in Northamptonshire . |