Example sentences of "who [vb past] [art] [det] [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 | The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness . |
| 4 | They work out who got the most shots in |
| 5 | William Horsley , 83 , was punched and kicked by the thug who snatched the few pounds he had on him . |
| 6 | This drew the immediate and sincere response ( and it should be noted that the South African Rugby Football union comments published in New Zealand have not attempted to side-step the issue ) from Dr Danie Craven that every player who opposed the All Blacks in their five matches in the republic would be cleared of drugs use . |
| 7 | The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 . |
| 8 | Of any conducteur before Habeneck , it was surely Jean-Baptiste Rey who received the most plaudits in print : after all , his career coincided with the maturity of the Classical orchestra and with the liberalization of the press after 1790 . |
| 9 | Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mailed and heavily armed knights were an upper military class , with associated servants who undertook the many tasks needed to maintain both knight , horse and arms , before and after a conflict . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But his lady stole the scene ; and those who remembered the few lines in the newspapers about Dinah Asshe some years ago stowed them , charitably , in the backs of their minds . |
| 19 | Edwardians who had no such inhibitions |
| 20 | The guidelines contain a foreword by the Data Protection Registrar who had a few reservations about the guidelines . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |
| 24 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 25 | Even during her time at Harmondsworth there were other women who had the same experiences . |
| 26 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 27 | The person who spotted the most hazards was Guinness pensioner , who wins a £25 Guinness voucher . |
| 28 | A massive 42-country World Fertility Survey , commissioned by UNFPA and USAID , demonstrated that half the women who wanted no more children had no access to contraception . |
| 29 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |