Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 2 | Imprisoned as a loan resister in 1627 , he was one of the ‘ five knights ’ who applied unsuccessfully for a writ of habeas corpus . |
| 3 | I was part of a small group of women who met regularly above a shabby public house in Baggot Street to talk feminism and discuss the current state of Irish politics . |
| 4 | A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman . |
| 5 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
| 6 | At one o'clock in the afternoon , eight hours after the first shots had been fired south of Charleroi , Sharpe met more cavalrymen ; this time a patrol in red-faced dark blue coats who thundered eagerly across a pasture to surround Sharpe and his two horses . |
| 7 | On the final tumultuous day , foreign visitors began arriving : two English girls , daughters of country parsons , who had hitch-hiked round the world and about ten Japanese tourists who moved cautiously in a close-packed pod bristling with lenses . |
| 8 | Cortot , who suffered painfully from a sense of his own imperfections , would have been gratified to know that future as well as contemporary admirers joined him in realizing that there are , perhaps , higher things in art than mere discretion . |
| 9 | Belgian pig breeders , who suffered severely from an epidemic of swine fever last year , are concerned that the illness might spread . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ Caroline laughed , holding out her arms to the child , who came willingly for a cuddle . |
| 11 | At Stourbridge Town Hall in the West Midlands last night , where Botham began his tour , those who came instead of a night out at the pictures were somewhat surprised to find themselves treated to a night out at the pictures . |
| 12 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 13 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 14 | The three friends looked desperately at Ethel who stepped forward with a smirk flickering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 15 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 16 | She recalls one flashpoint involving a persistent representative who called regularly without an appointment trying to sell goods in which Betts had no interest . |
| 17 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 18 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 19 | But Iain , who worked briefly as an architect , says he 's too old to worry about pop fame . |
| 20 | Sally Hawes , the Secretary , is a young woman , recently married , who trained as a stenographer and who worked previously for a building firm . |
| 21 | Of many cup-painters the greatest , perhaps , with Onesimos , is one who worked regularly with a potter Brygos but has not left his own name , so the Brygos Painter . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus and hurt her knee twenty minutes ago ? |
| 23 | THREE lifeboats , three tugs and an RAF Sea King helicopter were yesterday searching for an 18-year-old lifeboatman who fell overboard from a fishing boat . |
| 24 | Mothers who dreamed fondly of a white wedding , a handsome bridegroom and grandchildren soon on the scene , may find that their daughter is planning to marry a man her father 's age , who has an ex-wife and some teenage children of his own . |
| 25 | Up until recently , we had a resident who went across on a regular basis but her health deteriorated , and we have at least three or four who do wander about the shops . |
| 26 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 27 | Mrs Purry , who looked suitably like a black Persian cat , then brought the coffee in . |
| 28 | Nosferatu , made in Germany in 1922 and starring Max Schreck — the actor who looked more like a rat than a rat — has been released by The Aikman Archive ( £14.99 ) . |
| 29 | A simple little house , charmingly decorated in pastel shades and seeming very much to match its owner , who looked more like a housewife than she did an astrologer . |
| 30 | Karl Schneider was in his late forties , a tall broad-shouldered man who looked more like a dock worker than anything else . |