Example sentences of "person who [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 2 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 3 | The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did . |
| 4 | ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle . |
| 5 | He was a highly stimulating person who was questioning of the mind , who created his own techniques and formed his own mode of expression unpressurized by fashion . |
| 6 | Jeremy : The person who was talking in the story was trying things out and playing things . |