Example sentences of "who [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 2 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 3 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 4 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |
| 5 | There were only three spaces available on a concreted section of the front garden and I normally left these for the use of Mrs Bradshaw and the two families who lived in the second-floor flats . |
| 6 | Harold was as well-mannered , she considered , as anyone in the University , including the stiff old Prebendary Porkadder , who lived in the next-door house with his housekeeper . |
| 7 | There was a peremptory sharpness to the knock which announced the presence of Mrs Bradshaw , a lady in her early sixties who lived in the next-door flat . |
| 8 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 9 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 10 | A section of the hardboard wall was tugged aside , and Chrissie glimpsed the pale , unshaven features of the man who lived in the concealed room . |
| 11 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 12 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 13 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 14 | Yolande was an attractive French girl , who lived in the up-market district . |
| 15 | From the shade beneath the trees emerged each day some of the considerable number of people who lived in the mysterious heights . |
| 16 | They were concerned most , however , about one section of the mass audience and that was the hard-core army of regular adolescent film-goers who lived in the disorganized city centres , the so-called ‘ crowded section ’ . |
| 17 | Needless to say , those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation . |
| 18 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 19 | He is said to have instructed that a castle be built to impress and intimidate the wild Ui Meith who lived in the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 20 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 21 | Even with evidence for the level of wealth in each building , this could imply that the village society was led by a single chief , who lived in the biggest house in the centre of the village , or that the village was run by a council of all the members of the village , who built a large central hall in which to hold their meetings . |
| 22 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 23 | Even so , the jobs located in the cities were not going to inner-city residents but to people who lived in the leafy suburbs . |
| 24 | The upkeep of Hogarth House became neglected and it was severely damaged by enemy bombing , during the second world war , but a well known Chiswick resident who lived in the fine mansion of Grove House , Col. R. W. Shipway , J.P. , made a generous gift to the Middlesex County Council who restored the house and reopened it to the public as a museum in 1951 , transferring it to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 . |
| 25 | Mrs Bennet of Upper Halling who lived in the old Chapel Houses was also a staunch member of this little Church and assisted Mrs Still until her death . |
| 26 | Several families who lived in the same settlement decided to leave as a result of her behaviour , and others insisted that they would never go to live in the same place as her . |
| 27 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 28 | A teenager who lived in the same address returned and tried to call police after hearing the voice of the lodger and the man , said Charles Kellett , prosecuting . |
| 29 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 30 | And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was . |