Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 2 | And he said he was unable to resist orders from a drowned boyhood friend called Delroy , who was speaking to him from ‘ beyond the grave ’ . |
| 3 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 4 | The trustees from time to time remitted to the mother of the children , who was their guardian and who was residing with them in England , sums of money in accordance with the provision of the will for the maintenance and education of the children . |
| 5 | Your mother , who was living with you in Paris , immediately rushed to Italy when she heard the news . |
| 6 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 7 | The Director was the only one who was called by anything but his given name . |
| 8 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 9 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 10 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 11 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 12 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |
| 13 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 14 | The most recent recipient was the Sultan of Brunei who was presented with his by the Chancellor Lord Jenkins . |
| 15 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 16 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |
| 17 | Alyssia sat up quickly and looked at Piers , who was staring at her with that perpetual look of lazy mockery on his face . |
| 18 | He looked towards Peg , who was staring at him with undisguised loathing . |
| 19 | Zen glanced at Ellen , who was staring at him in horrified disbelief . |
| 20 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 21 | The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto . |
| 22 | Privilege elides into Freedom , libertas into libertates again ; the practical sense depended on who was talking to whom about what , and in which circumstances . |
| 23 | Ace demanded , freeing himself from the constraints of his seatbelt as the jet , now airborne , levelled off , and smiling at the stewardess who was bending over him with familiarity , offering what was obviously his normal choice of drink . |
| 24 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 25 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 26 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 27 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 28 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 29 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 30 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |