Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Scotland fans remember Jimmy Johnstone as the drunken hero of the Largs boating trip , a passing thought should be spared for a couple of local brothers , John and Tam Halliday , two old men who luckily owned a boat and had a lifetime 's knowledge of the maritime area . |
| 2 | There was , nevertheless , an unusually large crowd , including one or two golf journalists who rarely saw a golf course . |
| 3 | We stood in silence to remember David Pym who rarely missed a Keele Convention and who had organised two of our speakers . |
| 4 | He was , as Zina Smith , five , pointed out , just a horrible old man who badly needed a Mum . |
| 5 | great cricketer who only played a couple of times last season , was Dave . |
| 6 | Jane , who only rode a bicycle , fully concurred . |
| 7 | Allon , who only passed a fitness test an hour before the kick-off , was on hand to lob home a long clearance from defender Jamie Bates to record his fourth goal in five games since his record £275,000 signing from Chelsea last month . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 9 | Why not at the party , from a woman who suddenly saw a way to wreak her spite not only on Parkin but on his ambitious young lover ? |
| 10 | Tammuz opened his mouth at Roirhak who merely took a sip of coffee . |
| 11 | The year 's calendar will be : 12 January to 20 February , ‘ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ’ , a body of work produced by William Tillyer , Maggi Hambling , Maurice Cockrell and Wendy Connelly who all spent a week painting in County Sligo ; 23 February to 1 April , ‘ Ivon Hitchens centenary exhibition ’ , commemorating the centenary year of the artist 's birth ; April 5 to 1 May , ‘ Wendy Connelly ’ , the artist 's first one-person show since graduating from St Martin 's in 1991 ; 5 May to 5 June , ‘ William Tillyer ’ , oils and watercolours from the Yorkshire-based artist ; 8 June to 4 September ‘ British Landscape painting 1750–1993 ’ , from Richard Wilson and Gainsborough to Constable , Palmer , Spencer and Lanyon ; 7 September to 2 October , ‘ John Virtue ’ , in collaboration with the Lisson Gallery ; 5 October to 6 November , ‘ Ben Nicholson centenary exhibition ’ , timed to coincide with the Tate exhibition ; 9 November to 4 December ‘ Graham Sutherland ’ , the gallery 's first showing of work by the artist ; 7 December to 30 January , ‘ Maurice Cockrill ’ . |
| 12 | Police are hunting a man who brutally raped a woman student in a city centre toilet . |
| 13 | In other words , by the culture-controlled shedding of blood at circumcision , the individual entered the covenant and joined with his fellow ‘ circumcisees ’ , who together formed a community or brotherhood of blood , bound to each other and God by special duties and mutual obligations . |
| 14 | Further peace talks brokered by Oakley led to the announcement on Dec. 27 of a reconciliation agreement between Aydid and Mahdi Mohammed , who together led a peace march on Dec. 28 across the so-called " green line " which had divided Mogadishu between their forces . |
| 15 | From December 1991 to June 1992 work was carried out on ‘ DRD by Red Lake Seaplane Service along with local volunteers , who together logged a total of over 1,700 man hours of restorative work on the veteran floatplane . |
| 16 | So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that . |
| 17 | The elections , approved by the October referendum [ see p. 37795 ] , were boycotted by the three major opposition parties , who nevertheless had a number of their members standing as independent candidates . |
| 18 | Women who were inspired neither by feminism nor revulsion against the prescribed role of the middle class wife and mother , but who nevertheless found a sense of purpose in philanthropy , often wrote of their work with a cloying sentimentality and in terms that reveal a strange mixture of humility ( expressed in religious terms ) ; insecurity , class superiority and a grim determination to do God 's will . |
| 19 | He looked imploringly at Connors , but it 's no use pleading with a man who just had a machine gun go off in his face . |
| 20 | We are not sure whether Jasper Lyon is an elderly gentleman reminiscing about World War Two or a young man who just had a bee in his bonnet as a schoolboy about flying a Stirling bomber rather than becoming a Spitfire pilot . |
| 21 | You do n't find cows with names any more and there are n't any farmers like Mr Dakin , who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves , pigs and hens . |
| 22 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 23 | In addition three patients who already had a diagnosis of pernicious anaemia were excluded from this analysis because they were already receiving B 1 2 treatment . |
| 24 | One woman , who already had a job and a busy life of her own , was surprised to find how sad she felt when her children left home in quick succession . |
| 25 | ‘ My beautiful silver-haired Jenna had grown into a woman , a desirable woman who already had a sort of mystical hold on me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ 'What are you reading , Thomas ? ’ asked one of the boys who already wore a scholar 's gown . |
| 27 | A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned . |
| 28 | When Chesterman countered with the suggestion that this was all very technical and cerebral , Karajan — a courteous man who normally conducted a conversation with the calmness of a trained philosopher — retorted with the suggestion that such a view was ‘ misguided ’ . |
| 29 | Buckmaster , who normally dominated a conversation , had found himself taken aback by the scale Morgan foresaw they would operate on . |
| 30 | Mr Oswick strongly condemned vandals who deliberately fired a firework into a house in Scott Avenue , Whiston , late last night , while the householder was still inside . |