Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised his hand as if to strike Frankie , who instinctively recoiled into the rough safety of his nanny s overcoat . |
| 2 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 3 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 4 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 5 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 6 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 7 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 8 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 9 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 10 | Unlike the exercise described in Chapter 10 , the team did not include representatives from the parent organisation ( ie the County Council ) , a deliberate omission to avoid the results being conditioned by the knowledge or views of internal analysts , who nonetheless assisted with the general arrangements and administration . |
| 11 | In the second half , Alexander made two good chances for himself , but it was Bicester who deservedly equalised after a sustained spell of pressure when Mark Butler stabbed home a loose ball from a corner . |
| 12 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 13 | Clifford Allen , who quickly emerged as the political and spiritual leader of the movement , saw in the collapse of the Second International : |
| 14 | Stumps were uprooted , an impromptu lap of honour instigated by Desmond Haynes , who quickly collapsed in a tearful heap , and Richardson snatched an Antiguan flag in scenes of wild abandon . |
| 15 | Commenting on this recently , evangelist Eric Delve asked : ‘ Who ever heard of a six-week training course to teach girls who have got engaged how to tell their friends ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If he does n't eat he 'll just get thinner and thinner and who ever heard of a small , thin dinosaur ? ’ |
| 17 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 18 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 19 | The bump readers , who once moved among the great and the good , are almost gone ; though a handful of practitioners are still living , phrenology is officially dead . |
| 20 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
| 22 | Also present was Mrs. Blair , mother of Eric Blair ( 1903–1950 ) , alias George Orwell , who also played as a junior , and whose father , a golfer of considerable skill , became Club Secretary in 1912 . |
| 23 | Rush , who also played in the thrilling victory over Auxerre , is hoping a packed Anfield will roar Liverpool into the European Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-finals . |
| 24 | It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry . |
| 25 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 26 | They could successfully compete with the true mammals who also evolved in the late Triassic ( and who also acquired the upright gait shortly after the archosaurs ) . |
| 27 | On Jan. 1 Bhanu Pratap Singh resigned as Governor of Karnataka and was replaced by Khurshid Alam Khan , governor of Goa , who also remained in the latter post . |
| 28 | Pytheas , who probably lived in the fourth century , does not seem to have travelled inside Gaul . |
| 29 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 30 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |