Example sentences of "who [vb past] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durkheim was a very austere man who led a rigidly timetabled existence and refused to talk to his family except at mealtimes . |
| 2 | In other words , she could be a girl who led a somewhat itinerant life in the habit of taking jobs in various parts of the country or moving about to live with different men . |
| 3 | General Hugo Banzer , who led a relatively successful military dictatorship in the 1970s , is one of the leading candidates for the presidency . |
| 4 | Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much , grew a little too possessive ? |
| 5 | ( 1 ) There once was an old farmer ( 2 ) who owned a very stubborn donkey . |
| 6 | Voters who read a stridently left- or right-wing paper are at least exercising some choice , even if their own partisanship is different from that of their paper . |
| 7 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 8 | Then the Duke of Wellington , who made a most interesting speech on imaginative farming and game conservation , in which he deplored the massacre of nearly tame reared pheasants , and said that landowners and farmers should look to quality rather than quantity when shooting pheasants . |
| 9 | Unlike the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden , who made a typically miserable response , the people of Scotland will realise that this is an excellent statement . |
| 10 | Yet during his day he featured as a significant Afro-Asian leader , a ‘ charismatic ’ personality like Nehru who made a far greater impact on the international scene than Nu with his disarming frankness and humility . |
| 11 | Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own . |
| 12 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 13 | Helena , who earns £150 a week as a machine operator , said : ‘ I have been treated abominably , like an irresponsible child , not a customer who made a very small mistake . ’ |
| 14 | ( Exceptions to this include Allen ( 1987 ) who used a very basic implementation of a rule-based grammar for text-to-speech processing . ) |
| 15 | The Cartwright family , for example , who maintained a very large estate at Aynho , Northamptonshire , valued the work of a kitchen maid at £3.10s per year . |
| 16 | But he will have to deal with the new Urban Regeneration Agency , whose chairman is the former cabinet minister , Peter Walker , a Tory wet , who pursued a blatantly interventionist and un-Thatcherite policy while secretary of state for Wales . |
| 17 | As it happened , the Stewart kings between 1406 and 1542 had married wives of considerable personality and , except in the case of Margaret Tudor , skill ; in the power-sharing between Mary of Gueldres , widow of James II , and the then elder statesman , James Kennedy , bishop of St Andrews , during the early years of James III 's minority , for example , it was the Queen Mother who pursued a much more intelligent foreign policy towards England than the bishop . |
| 18 | During the campaign , he was put out to grass with three old political warhorses , Denis Healey , Norman Tebbit and Roy Jenkins , who provided a rather genial breakfast-time alternative to the Old Devils . |
| 19 | Alas John , my day was spoilt , not by two teams who provided a reasonably good game but by people who should have known better . |
| 20 | It was instead the product of a partnership between a county council which provided industrial estates and infrastructure , a district council which provided public sector housing and infrastructure and two major developer builders working in tandem who provided a very large element of private housing . |
| 21 | As he left the dance , he noticed Tess , who seemed a little sad that he had not chosen her . |
| 22 | There were some wives who played a more active role , taking part regularly in milking and undertaking the bookkeeping . |
| 23 | But it was also de Kruif who played a very considerable role in shaping the one novel that all microbiologists recognise as their literary classic , Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis . |
| 24 | There was no change in anxiety in the group who had received detailed information ( p=0.20 ) , whereas patients who received a rather superficial explanation of the risks were significantly less anxious afterwards ( p=0.012 ) , particularly if they had scored highly on the baseline anxiety assessment ( fig 1 ; r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) . |
| 25 | ( e ) shareholders who paid a much higher price for their shares than their current market value may simply react emotionally to an offer which would involve them in a loss . |
| 26 | ‘ It was his heart , ’ said the doctor , who arrived a little later . |
| 27 | The voice of Gerry Adams , who arrived a little later on the scene , has been banished from television , but he is alive . |
| 28 | ‘ Any reasonable jury who returned a not guilty verdict on the manslaughter charge would do the same on the arson charge . |
| 29 | He and his wife remember with pleasure one young man who spent a particularly fine Sunday afternoon reclining in a deckchair with a straw hat over his eyes . |
| 30 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |