Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring . |
| 2 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 3 | Although some of the people who became involved had been radicalised by the Vietnam War , many others did not share that experience . |
| 4 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 5 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 6 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 7 | A solicitor who became paralysed after a routine jaw operation has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 8 | Firemen had to twice use power jacks to prise apart the bars of a roundabout on a council recreation ground on the Roseworth estate at Stockton , to free two children who became trapped . |
| 9 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 10 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 11 | In July 1839 , Spalding travelled to the village of Tuekakas — who became known as Old Joseph — in the beautiful Wallowa valley . |
| 12 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 13 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 14 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 15 | Winston Thomas , 47 , who became known as the Bus Stop Rapist , had raped two women and assaulted and robbed three others in a two-month reign of terror in Wood Green , north London . |
| 16 | But when the orangs — who became known as the Taiwan Ten — reached Indonesia , the main Indonesian negotiator , Sutisna Wartaputra , director general of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ( PHPA ) , changed his mind and refused permission for the animals to go to Tanjung Puting . |
| 17 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 18 | As Minton 's relationship with the Roberts deteriorated he began to gather round him a gang of male students at Camberwell who became known as ‘ Johnny 's Circus ’ . |
| 19 | There was the redoubtable Mary O'Keefe — daughter of the famous sea-captain who became known as King O'Keefe of the South Seas . |
| 20 | A computerised operation to save rare plants and trees was launched by the Trust 's Botanical Consultant , Michael Lear , who became known in the media as ‘ Green Adair ’ . |
| 21 | After Muhammads death a schism developed between those ( who became known as Sunnis ) and the followers of Ali ( the Shiites , from Shi'a Ali , or party of Ali ) . |
| 22 | These rebels , who became known as ‘ levellers ’ , appointed Marshall their leader , and he directed successful operations , demolishing by night the dykes constructed during the day . |
| 23 | When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O . |
| 24 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 25 | Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 . |
| 26 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 27 | The visitors would act as spokesmen and advisers for clergy who remain opposed to women priests and assist the archbishops in monitoring the arrangements made for them . |
| 28 | Amnesty is concerned that those who remain detained may not be receiving adequate medical treatment for the seriousness of their conditions and some may be close to death . |
| 29 | Look at the faces of this young crowd who sit entranced at Henry 's wit and wisdom . |
| 30 | As we now contemplate our strategy for the years ahead , let us never forget that they are the people who sit huddled outside , waiting for us to get it right . ’ |