Example sentences of "who [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 2 | The workers who were fiddling at this particular factory were able to keep their self-image and conduct their working lives as good citizens ; like most unconvicted white-collar criminals they were not stigmatised . |
| 3 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 4 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 5 | The saddest story relates to Canoe Store of Emsworth who were struggling like many others . |
| 6 | This picture is enhanced by figure 4.2 , which shows NCB estimates of the number of NUM members who were working in each field both during an early month of the conflict and on four dates in the middle of the strike period . |
| 7 | the people who were going round these different countries |
| 8 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 9 | Equally , some heads were struggling to deal with colleagues who were challenging by any standards — individuals who were combative , touchy , recalcitrant , bitter , lazy or in any of a variety of other ways uncooperative . |
| 10 | With the casualty beds still unoccupied the medical staff in hospital grew bolder in their attempts to help Fulham 's children , who were returning from this first evacuation in large numbers . |
| 11 | He had the anxious , wary look he always wore around women who were indulging in any essentially feminine pursuit — like crying , being coy , spending money on fripperies , or gossiping . |
| 12 | This proposed empowering a summary court to order , on application by the medical officer of that Corporation , the removal and detention and maintenance , in an institution infirmary , of elderly , infirm , or physically incapacitated persons living in insanitary conditions , or who were suffering from any grave chronic disease . |
| 13 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 14 | I telephoned the C I D department at in an effort to trace the officer who was dealing with that case . |
| 15 | ( She even sent away her young man of the time who was staying at another hotel . ) |
| 16 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 17 | Probyn denies killing his wife who was living with another man at the time . |
| 18 | Minutes later the policewoman 's colleagues shot dead Youssef Khaïf , 23 , a Frenchman of Algerian descent , who was riding in another car . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 20 | Lambert who was leading on this occasion , ordered the formation to go into line astern for the attack . |
| 21 | Frenchman Didier Auriol , who was leading for much of Saturday , was disqualified for receiving unofficial help on the second of the day 's seven special stages while lying fifth . |
| 22 | Mr. Anthony Barrey , a barrister and a Crown prosecutor who was prosecuting in that court on that morning , drew the court 's attention to the footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 121st ed. , vol. 1 , to which reference has already been made . |
| 23 | I was starting to get that unreal sense , the dream feeling I 'd had on invasion day all that time ago ; the idea that it was n't really me who was going through all this . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the Christmas term 1990 , the staff of the Modern Languages Department were invited to a buffet dinner in Crescent House by Professor Noel Thomas , who was retiring after some 25 years as a member — and for much of that period a key member — of the Department . |