Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 2 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 3 | In 1684 , for example , the Whig conspirator Sir Thomas Armstrong , who already stood condemned as an outlaw , was peremptorily executed without a trial . |
| 4 | He overbore Neville Chamberlain and the others who still wanted to ride for a fall on a bold safeguarding policy . |
| 5 | The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations , who quickly became known as the ‘ Lords of Trade ’ , were the direct descendant of a committee of the Privy Council suggested by Ashley , on which Locke had served . |
| 6 | The sixty-five year old , who also learned to box in the forces , was in his pyjamas — but the muggers still believed he had money to steal |
| 7 | The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative . |
| 8 | F/O Pickard , a US citizen who coincidentally had worked on the carrier in the US before joining the ATA , recognized the vessel at Glasgow and was the first of those involved to identify it as VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) . |
| 9 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
| 10 | Waiting for him are the entertainments manager , played by veteran British character actor Sydney Tafler , and another stand-up act , in the guise of Christopher Timothy , who later became known as a star of All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 11 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 12 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 13 | Umpire Douglas Sang Hue , who interestingly had moved into a square-on position and thus was perfectly placed to adjudicate , gave the startled batsman run out . |
| 14 | The mystic person who singularly failed to appear during a 20-year span of abuse was my doctor . |
| 15 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
| 16 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 17 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 18 | However , this was not the key issue for Great Russians , those who historically had participated in the dismemberment of Poland and oppressed its people . |
| 19 | He enjoyed the fury , not always speechless , of the good Conservatives who occasionally had to stand in the corridor , popping their eyes at this spectacle of enthroned privilege . |
| 20 | ‘ Nah ! ’ exploded the Old Stager , who never failed to rise to the Van Boy 's bait . |
| 21 | Sand was a writer with a popular following ; Flaubert , who never grew used to the lashings he got from the critics , struggled to follow her instructions to rise above their hostility . |