Example sentences of "who [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Nora and the weirdos we 'd get people buying it for their girlfriends , as a laugh Some girls , those who were a bit more out there , would buy the rubber wear for themselves . |
| 2 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 4 | Between relentless , disjointed images of everything from cowboys and Indians to real-life Vietnam clips and even an off-colour star of a former age , Victor Mature as the Jolly Green Giant , he managed to write the obituary for that totally plastic group , created from nothing as NBC 's teenybop answer to the Beatles and who were a pale shadow in terms of comparative talent . |
| 5 | They stated that almost everyone was ‘ supportive ’ and ‘ welcoming ’ , apart from ( a ) some general practitioners who were a little anxious about severely dependent elderly people being sustained at home , and ( b ) a few people concerned about the risks of bringing unqualified support workers into people 's homes with all the attendant risks of exploitation , etc . |
| 6 | Two such were James and Edwin Docharty , talented artist brothers , sons of Scottish painter James L. Docharty , who were a tremendous help to Agnew in the organisation of the Grand Bazaar , and in providing numerous paintings for sale in aid of the Building Fund . |
| 7 | Tom stayed with the Millers , who were a childless couple , until 1952 . |
| 8 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 9 | ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films . |
| 10 | Not only was it marvellous to visit such a fascinating country , but it was also a delight to meet so many keen and enthusiastic knitters who were a real pleasure to teach . |
| 11 | And when Hoggart turned his attention to the ‘ juke box boys ’ who were a recognisable strain of early Teds — ‘ boys between fifteen and twenty , with drape-suits , picture ties , and an American slouch ’ — even the slouch was , characteristically , identified as ‘ Americanised ’ and hence ‘ postwar ’ and ‘ un-British ’ , as the boys sipped their milk-shakes and tapped their feet to the music in their milk-bar rendezvous : |
| 12 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 13 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 14 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 15 | The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game . |
| 16 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 17 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 18 | Later that evening Henry , who was a firm believer that time spent in reconnaissance was seldom wasted , raised the matter of the dinner party with his brother-in-law . |
| 19 | Although Jimmy did not have the height and size of a Stan Smith , who was a top player at the same time , I saw other strengths in Jimmy 's game which I liked as I coached him . |
| 20 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 21 | You wo n't find it easy to name an important critic who was a critic , and nothing else ; that is , until quite recently . |
| 22 | Also in America there is the singular example of Yvor Winters , sometimes seen as an equivalent of Leavis , who was a poet of conservative but original talents , and a fiercely judgemental critic , who weirdly redrew the canons of English and American literature , so that T. Sturge Moore and Elizabeth Daryush emerged as major twentieth-century poets . |
| 23 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |
| 24 | Their captain Sandy Lister , who was a doubtful starter at the beginning of the week , has recovered from a bout of tonsillitis and will play . |
| 25 | LORD JUSTICE BUTLER-SLOSS said that the husband , who was a Yugoslav , arrived in England in 1966 at the age of 23 with a small sum of money in his pocket . |
| 26 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 27 | It was headed by Alexander Eiduk , a pugnacious character who was a member of the GPU collegium . |
| 28 | All from Exeter , where they settled after the war , the three are Joe Wasniowski , who was a flight mechanic with 317 ( Wilenski ) Hurricane and Spitfire Squadron ; Ted Wijaszko , a radar techician with 307 ( Lwowski ) night fighter Squadron , which flew Defiants , Beaufighters and Mosquitos ; and Stan Kadzielski , a naval gunner who came to Britain as a crew member of the destroyer Burza . |
| 29 | While still on this theme , a friend who was a cook bemoans the lack of stories from or about those who kept us fed . |
| 30 | Over the next two days , Harry cycled through Zutphen and Arnhem to Eindhoven , where a cafe owner gave him coffee and rolls , and a priest , who was a friend of the cafe proprietor advised Harry who was now headed for the Dutch/Belgian border . |