Example sentences of "who were [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opojaz group , as its full title implies ( The Society for the Study of Poetic Language ) consisted of students of literature who were united both by a dissatisfaction with existing forms of literary study and by a positive interest in the poetry of the Russian Futurists . |
| 2 | The elector was a promiscuous man : one of Wendling 's daughters was his ex-mistress , and Mozart wrote that he had been asked to play the piano to the natural children of the elector who were kept nearby in a separate establishment . |
| 3 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 4 | The other dead men are David Russell , 22 , of Lochgelly , and Graham Spence , 39 , of Crosshill , who were travelling together in a white transit . |
| 5 | I went to see the children , who were playing quietly with a robot . |