Example sentences of "who was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only remembered that right from the beginning he took her with him , and it was she who was sent to the doors to ask politely if they had anything to sell . |
| 2 | Käthe Kollwitz , who was an honourary member from 1940 to 1943 and Oda Schottmüller the resistance fighter who was killed by the Nazis in 1943 retained their membership . |
| 3 | Scott Quinnell , 19 , was the game 's outstanding forward , and a 50-yard run down the touchline with the ball in one hand and handing off tacklers with the other would have impressed Alan Davies , the Wales coach , who was watching from the stands . |
| 4 | That man could well be former Southampton boss Chris Nicholl , who was watching from the stands . |
| 5 | Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver . |
| 6 | How was I to know who was marching up the stairs and in here ? |
| 7 | Israel 's foreign minister , Shimon Peres , who was asked by the Libyans several months ago to allow the trip , says he had no illusions about Colonel Qaddafi 's motives . |
| 8 | er no some other bod who was dealing with the accounts at in Enfield . |
| 9 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 10 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 11 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |
| 12 | The authorities said that Mr Porras , who was deported on the grounds of having an expired visa and using falsified documents , had lived in Ecuador under an assumed name since 1987 and ran a Quito company trading in farm machinery , glassware and industrial security equipment . |
| 13 | Menachem Begin the leader of Irgun , who was wanted for the murders of sergeants Martin and Paice ( see Daily Express ) went on in time to become the Prime Minister of the Zionist State of Israel . |
| 14 | She is sitting next to her neighbour , a black woman who was born in the tenements and whose brother lived nearby . |
| 15 | Mucosal infiltration by inflammatory cells was evaluated as : absent ( 0 ) , moderate ( + ) , mild ( ++ ) , intense ( +++ ) by an experimented pathologist who was blinded to the results of platelet activating factor . |
| 16 | An example of the political interpretation of coin portraiture can be seen in the fine portraits of a certain Tarcondimotus , who was appointed by the Romans to be the ruler of a small part of south-east Asia Minor in the late first century BC , and subsequently given the title ‘ king ’ by Mark Antony . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 18 | As Posidonius remarks in passing , he was " the father of Bituis who was dethroned by the Romans " . |
| 19 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 20 | At Cornforth Lane School , Coxhoe , the children sang the 23rd psalm when the news was broken , says H. Ellerby , who was working in the kitchens at the school . |
| 21 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 22 | General Pal Maletar of the freedom fighters , who was negotiating with the Russians under a safe-conduct pass , was arrested and shot . |
| 23 | When someone who was putting on the records said : ‘ Fourth movement , called The Storm , ’ I wondered how the music would compare with the storm outside . |
| 24 | But not as loopy as the Lacuna woman , of course , who was standing in the shadows and favouring everyone in turn with her intense glare . |
| 25 | The twentieth century has its own Christian martyrs : St Maximilian Kolbe , who exchanged places with a condemned Jew in the concentration camp and was starved along with his fellow prisoners , before being fatally injected with carbolic acid ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a minister of the Confessing Church of Germany , who was executed by the Nazis ; and Archbishop Romero , gunned down when he was at a prayer meeting . |
| 26 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 27 | Luke de Warton , who was captured by the Scots in the early 1320s , had to mortgage his lands to the Captain of Berwick Castle to raise the money to redeem himself , and he ended his days living on the charity of a religious house in York . |
| 28 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 29 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 30 | One friend who was told of the contents of the letter reveals : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to help maintain the dignity of the Crown and consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |