Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 2 | ‘ Ihre Kameraden , ’ said a soldier who was sitting by the window . |
| 3 | The defendant who was employed as the manager of a bookmakers only met customers once ( if at all ) as most business was done by telephone and was of a credit nature . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 5 | A police spokesman said : ‘ He told them he could not wake his mummy who was found on the ground floor . ’ |
| 6 | Following 13 years ' deliberation by a special Vatican commission , Pope John Paul II on Oct. 31 formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei , the Italian astronomer , mathematician and physicist who was forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun . |
| 7 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 8 | The oldest patient in the study was a 92-year-old retired college professor who was admitted from the emergency department with a 3-day history of productive cough , dyspnoea , and fever . |
| 9 | So she hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast — and almost stopped in her tracks at the sight of the figure who was seated at the kitchen table . |
| 10 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 11 | An employee who was reprimanded at the end of July 1980 subsequently demanded , through his solicitors , that the letter of reprimand be withdrawn . |
| 12 | Directions were given by the experimenter who was seated in the rear of the vehicle . |
| 13 | SADIE cuffed the wee boy who was playing with the leather strap that opened the front window and settled down to watch the world rush past and eat her batter . |
| 14 | A 16-year-old boy who was trapped in the back of the van also died . |
| 15 | Masklin looked at the tall , thin , old nome who was scowling at the three of them . |
| 16 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 17 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 18 | Now there was a lady who was working in the site and she was doing this with her hand . |
| 19 | The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband . |
| 20 | The evidence of a child who was taught by the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ method is that at the age of 5 she is able to talk and play with normal children at a normal school and although she may not be as far ahead , the results of this method seem astounding . |
| 21 | ‘ Hello , ’ I said to the Puerto Rican child who was sitting on the lap of the woman beside me . |
| 22 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 23 | During the journey we were informed that tomorrow , we were going to go and see the Queen who was coming to the small town to visit the hospital . |
| 24 | She liaised with the RSSPCC social workers on the mainland who were dealing with the children , and conducted meetings in Orkney about the case . |
| 25 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
| 27 | I read a nice one once , all about a poor girl who was found in the snow with a lost memory by a young and 'andsome squire that took her home to 'is castle and — ’ |
| 28 | It is used , for example , to distinguish between a defining relative clause such as He was waving to the girl who was running along the platform and a non-defining relative clause such as He was waving to the girl , who was running along the platform . |
| 29 | The girl died after she and her 11-year-old sister , their eight-year-old brother and a 16year-old girl who was babysitting at the house , in Emlyn Road , Mayhill , Swansea , were rescued and taken to hospital . |
| 30 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |