Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 2 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 3 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 4 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 6 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 7 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 8 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 9 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 10 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 11 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |
| 12 | Ten years ago , a computer was a large , static and very expensive piece of machinery , operated by an expert elite who communicated with it in a language which only they understood . |
| 13 | ( He was clearly influenced by Andrea Gabrieli and influenced him in turn , as he did Giovanni who served under him in the Munich choir from c. 1575 to 1579 . ) |
| 14 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 15 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 16 | Next season they will replace Wigan , who finished below them in the four club ballot held during the league 's annual meeting at Preston . |
| 17 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 18 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 19 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 20 | His experience as a flyer was invaluable and those who worked with him at the time , recall the day he died . |
| 21 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |
| 22 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 23 | Laura shared rooms in the small terraced house with Alice Cox , a young lady who worked with her at a local Post Office . |
| 24 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 25 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 26 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 27 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 28 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 29 | They were , in fact , probing towards the central issue of the Watergate affair : not who planned it , but who knew about it from the start and who had ordered the cover-up . |
| 30 | I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop . |