Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 2 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 3 | He was rearranging his hair in the rear-view mirror as the monster moved out into the traffic , scattering small boys who 'd gathered at the front of the car to try and open the bonnet , for God 's sake , and examine the engine . |
| 4 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 5 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 6 | Karen , who started skating at the age of six , has received grants from the borough council 's Community Chest . |
| 7 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 8 | It was at one of these that the Empress was provoked into a comment at the expense of her husband 's current favourite , the Countess of Castiglione , who had appeared at the ball dressed as the Queen of Hearts . |
| 9 | Prominent in this development was a Lewes-born doctor who had studied at the University of Leyden and returned home to marry into the local gentry , combining estate management with medical speculations , and systematic enquiry . |
| 10 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 11 | One of the speakers , a Mr Sibbald , who had studied at the College and obtained his certificate , said ‘ My father was a farrier . |
| 12 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 13 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 14 | together with the Bishop of Chester , applied on 12th October for his removal ; the Goldsmiths complied , paid £5 to a Mr. Nicholson who had taught at the School in the meanwhile , and made John Cobb the new Master on 8th January 1602 . |
| 15 | An Asian teacher who had taught at the school for six years stated : |
| 16 | Miloslav Vlk ( 59 ) was enthroned in Prague on June 1 as Archbishop of Prague and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia , succeeding Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who had retired at the age of 91 . |
| 17 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 18 | One he had not seen at all , the fourth , who had stayed at the hideout ready to kill Simon Cormack on a phone call , or a no-show by his colleagues by a certain time . |
| 19 | David Weintraub , who had stared at the ceiling , dropped an eye towards the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it . |
| 21 | A tall woman of about forty , who had sat at the back , slipped away without speaking to anyone . |
| 22 | Again he was the charming young man who had knocked at the door just ten minutes earlier . |
| 23 | The letter concerned the mother of the complainant who had died at the hospital , where she was a paying patient . |
| 24 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 25 | The communist CGIL trade union confederation on Sept. 4 reconfirmed as its leader Bruno Trentin who had resigned at the end of July [ see p. 39025 ] . |
| 26 | Valensi , who had shown at the Section d'Or in 1912 , in a lecture given late in the following year asked : ‘ Why should we not invent pure painting ? |
| 27 | Here they were , objects of suspicion to be interrogated by the police , and not even noticed by the one or two newspaper men who had arrived at the hotel . |
| 28 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 29 | In fact , everybody seemed to be busy finding some job to help with the war effort , except Mum who continued to clean at the Gingold 's chip shop . |
| 30 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |