Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine or St Catherine 's Hill itself constituted a Pandora 's box of small-town trades and occupations at the time : everything from a gingerbread maker to a hairdresser , a staymaker , a breechesmaker , Charles Tucker the coalminer , John Golledge the blind schoolmaster , Mrs Allen at the Castle public house , and even John Ward , who seemed to be able to support himself by practising the noble art of a ‘ horse jockey ’ . |
| 2 | Her sister Clare , eighteen months her junior , described her as quote , a sister who seemed to be able do everything , she had a never ending social life , I was amazed how she managed to fit everything in unquote . |
| 3 | He recently met a man who claimed to be able to kill birds by shouting at them . |
| 4 | In 1943 , Dall heard of an American who claimed to be able to produce the world 's smallest writing , on a scale that would allow 30 copies of the Bible to be engraved on a square inch ( 6–5 sq cm ) of glass . |
| 5 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 6 | The Officer was talking to two gunners who appeared to be Polish judging by their accents . |
| 7 | And I suspect it 's the same kind of actual physical complaint that women who complained of being depressed have . |
| 8 | Thus , some teachers wanted subject books to be more accessible for their own teaching , as in the case of teachers who wished to be able to take out boxes of books for use in their own departments . |