Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 2 | Smallfry said that she was a wicked old woman who pretended to be nice just to trick people into liking her and believing her lies . |
| 3 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 4 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 5 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 6 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 7 | The commentators , who seemed to be pro United , were taken a little aback that at least three scum players were n't booked ( at minimum ) for bodychecking and other misc. fouls . |
| 8 | He had coolly — some even said coldly — " stood firm during the terrible onslaught of the myxomatosis , ruthlessly driving out every rabbit who seemed to be sickening . |
| 9 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 13 | She glanced from her regular customers to the two new ones who seemed to be interested in the proceedings , and she said , ‘ Well , now , she wo n't get much chocolate toffee for a ha'penny . |
| 14 | Most were economic refugees , but there were many who claimed to be environmental refugees leaving for the sake of their health . |
| 15 | Ginger then explained that Sam had taken away his girl , who claimed to be pregnant . |
| 16 | Judy Holliday , Piper Laurie , Laurence Harvey , Cary Grant ( half ) , a woman in the cataloguing department who claimed to be Polish , those he knew about , but Michael Caine ? |
| 17 | That I myself was hardly any more mature than he , was beside the point : I had no very high opinion of people who claimed to be mature adults . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He recently met a man who claimed to be able to kill birds by shouting at them . |
| 20 | The spine was so long and thick that Hawkbit , who happened to be close by , woke Speedwell to have a look at it . |
| 21 | She made numerous complaints to her manager , who happened to be male , what did he do ? |
| 22 | Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship . |
| 23 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 24 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thus nobles who decided to be obstreperous could perpetuate " temporary obligation " indefinitely . |
| 27 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 28 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 29 | The Swanage grammar-school boy who dreamed of being Prime Minister was dispensable after all . |
| 30 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |