Example sentences of "who [vb past] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 2 | Nothing , however , can detract from the miracle that , on Christmas Day 1973 , people who lived in a state of enmity with one another on each side of the peace-line were strangely drawn together , jointly to celebrate the Christmas story and to find in it a message of love and forgiveness and of reconciliation . |
| 3 | What appeared to be the most damaging evidence had been provided by an old man called Christopher Tricky , who lived in a hovel near the dog pound at Alfoxden park gate : |
| 4 | It seems that Panna was born asexual — with no visible sexual characteristics — into a poor family who lived in a village near Varanasi . |
| 5 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 6 | This produced different social patterns from those of , say , south-eastern Europe , where there were still peasants who remembered Robot , the servile labour service surviving from the feudal era , and who lived in a poverty like that of Calabria or the Guadalquivir valley . |
| 7 | Matthew Robinson , who lived in a lodging house for social security tenants in Keyham , Plymouth , Devon , was discovered by his brother Jason , nine — who had slept the night in the bunk above him — at 8.30am on Wednesday . |
| 8 | The two other mares who lived in a paddock , took longer to solve the problem — one pawed the bucket out with her hoof , and the other removed it with her mouth . |
| 9 | She told me of her children , of how life had changed in Oman once the old Sultan had gone and the new Sultan began to rule , of the Sultan 's mother who was ‘ covered in gold from her neck to her waist ’ and who lived in a palace in the city of Salalah . |
| 10 | At one point , one of the pupils renders ‘ … who lived in a pretty house with a large garden ’ as ‘ … who lived in a palace house with a little grandfather ’ . |
| 11 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 12 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |
| 13 | For The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe , buy or make a long cake such as a swiss roll and cut about four inches off the end . |
| 14 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |
| 15 | Fairytale characters mingled with the children in the crowd , giving them toys and bits of fruit : Mary Poppins , Mother Hubbard , the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe . |
| 16 | And Juan — as Alejandro ( who as one who lived in a glass house and was in no position to hurl polo balls ) pointed out — might well have died of sexual excess . |
| 17 | In his pre-sponsorship days he used to be known as ‘ the surfer who lived in a car ’ ; in France he had a tent on the beach . |
| 18 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 19 | McLean , 43 , of no fixed abode , and Lisa Burgess , 21 , who lived in a caravan near the Plas Madoc Housing Estate at Acrefair , both deny murder on Thursday , July 9 , last year . |
| 20 | Defendants Sharon McLean , 43 , of no fixed abode , and Lisa Burgess , 21 , who lived in a caravan near the Plas Madoc housing estate at Acrefair , near Wrexham , both deny murdering Mrs McMullen on the evening of Thursday July 9 last year . |
| 21 | Burgess , 21 , who lived in a caravan at Acrefair and McLean , 43 , of no fixed abode , deny murdering Mrs McMullen , 30 , of Derby Road , Brynteg . |
| 22 | Practically the whole of Ata'i 's work , on the other hand , is concerned with scholars who lived in a period of relatively rapid elaboration of the hierarchical structure ; and well before Ata'i 's own time the development was nearly complete . |
| 23 | When we first fished Sweethope in 1973 , it was owned by Vaux Breweries , Sunderland , and managed by a retired naval officer who lived in a house by the side of the lough . |
| 24 | ( Do you know , years ago I asked a wise man who lived in a cave outside Alexandria why this happens ? |
| 25 | That night I walked part of my way home with one of the other pupils , who lived in a group of houses a short distance from the school . |
| 26 | The 1851 returns record , for example , twenty-seven ‘ Israelites ’ who met in a room in Paradise Square , Sheffield and nineteen ‘ Brethren and Sisters United by the Blood of Christ ’ who assembled in the Garden School Room at Low Ackworth . |
| 27 | In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact . |
| 28 | So there is much for Buddhists and Christians to discuss together , much indeed for Buddhists to discuss among themselves , for in the early days there was a group of atta-vadins , people who believed in a self , while in Maha-yana , the Buddhism of the north , a more developed doctrine of salvation and grace would seem to make belief in selfhood logical . |
| 29 | Maybe it would change her mind about the great Prince Sabatini , maybe she 'd ask her papa to marry her off to someone who believed in a woman 's right to decency and respect . |
| 30 | Apart from an uncle who played in a cabaret band , his family was non-musical . |