Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Council 's rehoused everyone who lived in that street . ’ |
| 32 | The dust burned ; as did any populace who lived in that plate , supposing they had survived the plunge of their factory-homes . |
| 33 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 34 | She knew that the Bogeyman was a huge bat-like creature who lived in dark corners and feasted on the blood of ungrateful and disobedient children . |
| 35 | However , he became embittered with age , losing his fine looks and noble habits , and becoming a surly , cob-webbed ghost who lived in dark caves . |
| 36 | A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing : |
| 37 | For Schroder-Sonnenstern , who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards , drawing was a means of communicating with the world . |
| 38 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 39 | It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed . |
| 40 | who lived in these house plus I should think about |
| 41 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 42 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 43 | Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was . |
| 44 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 45 | Peters ' article on Bedouin families contains information about who lived in particular camps , leading him to suggest that ‘ the core ’ of a camp was not a male head of tent-hold , but his mother ( Peters , 1965 ) . |
| 46 | Many Armenians who lived in Turkish Armenia never spoke their own language . |
| 47 | The same payment is given to staff who lived in furnished accommodation at the previous base who move to rented unfurnished property at the new base or who buy their own houses in the new area . |
| 48 | The coastal villages were a little bigger , containing many landless peasants , represented by numerous 20s. assessments , who lived by grazing stock on the common saltmarshes . |
| 49 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 50 | According to former Tangier refugees like Pubi Rosenbaum , who lived until recent years in New York , and George Wertheimer of Madrid , Samuel was entrusted with considerable sums of money and jewellery from his orthodox brethren in Vienna and Hungary which he left in various strategic places for safekeeping . |
| 51 | As you tuck into your corn flakes , with all those added vitamins , spare a thought for those who lived before such luxuries were dreamed of . |
| 52 | This can only be done , of course , with authors who lived within modern categorizations of sexuality — but that period , after all , does include the entire history of the cinema . |
| 53 | I was always the one who argued for equal ages at Ladymont . |
| 54 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 55 | For Spengler , democracy was a sham and parliament a front for external forces who ruled by other means . |
| 56 | ‘ It was the High King Erin who ruled in those days , ’ he said . |
| 57 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 58 | The Soviet authorities presented it to those in the Royal Navy and merchant service who operated in Russian waters during the war . |
| 59 | It is given in translation here as a tribute to a brave man who fought under British leadership for the freedom of his country . |
| 60 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |