Example sentences of "who was [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She is sitting next to her neighbour , a black woman who was born in the tenements and whose brother lived nearby . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 14 | As Posidonius remarks in passing , he was " the father of Bituis who was dethroned by the Romans " . |
| 15 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One who sought sanctuary was a Milanese noble called Landriani , who was pursued to the columns , but escaped inside the convent . |
| 22 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |
| 23 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Two incidents had drawn public attention to the Directorate in October : the first on Oct. 9 concerned an armed relative of Khasbulatov who was arrested by the police but released without charge ; the second was a shooting incident on Oct. 20 , involving police and three members of the Directorate . |
| 25 | He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place . |
| 26 | The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " . |