Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |
| 2 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 3 | My vet — an older man who lived out on the Downs — has just retired , so I 'll try both your practices which will be to my advantage , because when one practice is too busy to come out at once then I can call on the other . ’ |
| 4 | I always had to call out Mr Davidson — the vet who lived out on the Downs — but he 's gone and retired . |
| 5 | The post would only be used for people who lived out of the dale . |
| 6 | Beyond that , we 've got to assume that the main source for instruments was the same as for everybody else who lived out of the range of urban merchandising , and that 's catalogues : Montgomery Ward , Sears & Roebuck and places like that . |
| 7 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 8 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 9 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 10 | ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow |
| 11 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 12 | Michael Hughes , who met up with the rest of the party here in Frankfurt last night , is likely to be given a more forward role supporting Dowie . |
| 13 | Granted , my steatopygous chum is not of an age with the aforementioned silver-haired Lothario who rode off into the sunset with a nifty piece of under-age crumpet strapped to his roofrack , i.e. Gill 's Dad . |
| 14 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 15 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 16 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 17 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 18 | I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course . |
| 19 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
| 20 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 21 | Aberdeen , who bounced back from the disappointment of losing to Rangers with a deserved Cup win over Dundee United on Sunday , are likely to be unchanged . |
| 22 | The only people who really knew him were the labourers who helped out at the farm during the periods of sheep-shearing , haytime and harvest . |
| 23 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 24 | ‘ Her mother was a very wealthy woman , and her father was a kind of handyman who helped out in the convent , and did a bit of work up at Westlands . |
| 25 | One of the most moving is the Common Riding at Selkirk , whose Flodden memorial with its inscription O , Flodden Field recalls the single local survivor who staggered back from the battle with an English standard , now lodged in the town museum . |
| 26 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 27 | Nothing was left but a clearing in the forest and a flock of doves who rose up into the air , wheeled round , and flew off . |
| 28 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 29 | A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison . |
| 30 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |