Example sentences of "who was [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Campbell Island he met John Biscoe [ q.v. ] , who was on a similar search for land in the Antarctic . |
| 2 | The commissioner was Judge Ireland who was on a temporary transfer from Scotland . |
| 3 | On Oct. 7 , a friendship and co-operation treaty was initialled by Dienstbier and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the presence of Havel and the German President , Richard von Weizsäcker , who was on a five-day state visit to Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | Eila Karjalainen was a Finnish student who was on a hitch-hiking holiday in England . |
| 5 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |
| 6 | She hesitated , glancing anxiously at Philip , who was on the other side of the table . |
| 7 | Woil , who was on the other side , stared at her in despair and shared misery before retreating into his shelter . |
| 8 | They were talking to Perks , the Porter , who was on the other side of the line . |
| 9 | Some years ago a presenter at a seminar on project management referred to the Taylor Woodrow logo and said he had often wondered who was on the other end of the rope . |
| 10 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |
| 11 | The late night , low level circuits made by the military jet over west Stockton and Eaglescliffe angered residents and Hartburn councillor Stephen Smailes , who was on the receiving end of their complaints . |
| 12 | Franz Beckenbauer , former West German captain who was on the losing side in 1966 , is willing to take part in anything planned — and Brazil 's Pele is also being lined up . |
| 13 | Jake Howard , who was on the Australian coaching staff for the World Cup , has joined Wanderers for next year and at the other end of Lansdowne Road the Landsdowne club have enrolled Graeme Taylor , formerly a Counties back and more lately involved with the All Blacks ‘ seconds ’ squad . |
| 14 | And er someone else who was on the large side , also stood up and they all giggled at him , and he said he 'd had enough of this fattist language . |
| 15 | As Dandelion ended , Acorn , who was on the windward side of the little group , suddenly started and sat back , with ears up and nostrils twitching . |
| 16 | A former editor of Izvestia , who was at the Central Committee plenum of 1964 which ‘ accepted ’ the resignation of his father-in-law on the grounds of age and health , Mr Adzhubey is perfectly placed to recall the ‘ stifling atmosphere ’ in the Politburo court at the time . |
| 17 | No , we did n't sack anybody who worked in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 18 | of our officers who work in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 19 | Anyone on the list who was at the infamous away games at Stoke where we got battered in 2 successive seasons ? |
| 20 | In particular they want to speak to anyone who saw a black man , aged about 24 , who was at the Social Services office in Calthorpe Street and was also seen later at Banbury and Oxford train stations . |
| 21 | He wanted someone of high calibre , with business and administrative skills , who was outside the traditional courtier mould yet compatible with the Old Guard already in situ . |
| 22 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 23 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 24 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 25 | The question for the House of Lords was whether an employer who was under no statutory duty could be vicariously liable for an employee 's breach of statutory duty to another employee . |
| 26 | While the three of them stood by the pump in the stableyard , waiting for their horses to be brought out , George nodded his head towards Gareth Davis , who was across the other side of the yard , well out of earshot . |
| 27 | What and who was behind the new Ali , the wily Washington lobbyist who had the ear of everyone from Strom Thurmond to Orrin Hatch ? |
| 28 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 29 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 30 | The woman in the shop that sold antique clothes was already busy with a customer who was after a white crepe de Chine 1920s dress that had gold sequins in thick crusty-looking roses all round the hips . |