Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 2 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 3 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 4 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 5 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 6 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 7 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 8 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 9 | Bennett raced away down the right , cut inside and crossed to Ventham who managed to shoot home from a narrow angle . |
| 10 | The PGCE Method Course in TEFL started in 1977 , when it mainly attracted graduates in Modern Languages who wished to teach overseas for a least part of their career . |
| 11 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 12 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 13 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 14 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 15 | During the inter-war period , when housing expectations among women were rising , one Medical Officer of Health found that mortality rates amongst families who had moved out of a slum area into new council houses actually rose , because correspondingly less was being spent on food . |
| 16 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 17 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 18 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 19 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 20 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 21 | Sixty years ago there was not an educated mute in America , but now there are four who are principals of schools , three are editors of newspapers circulating among the hearing community , two are professors in the deaf-mute college , three are chemists , six are ordained ministers , two have entered the civil service of the government ; one of these , who had risen rapidly to a high and responsible position , resigned to enter upon the practice of law in patent cases in Chicago and Cincinnati , and has been admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of the United States . |
| 22 | He was the Republicans ' defeated presidential candidate in 1960 , and the man who had stomped out of a press conference in 1962 when he failed to win the governorship of California , telling the reporters that they would n't ‘ have Nixon to kick around any more ’ . |
| 23 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 24 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 25 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 26 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 27 | The dissidents reportedly included former Liberian soldiers who had fled abroad after a failed coup attempt in 1985 [ see p. 34147 ] , when pro-Doe Army units exacted retribution against civilian inhabitants in the Nimba area Following the initial clashes between rebels and troops , the January 1990 fighting assumed a tribal nature , with rebels attacking members of the Krahn ethnic group ( to which Doe belonged ) , while regular forces sent in from Monrovia ( the capital ) retaliated against the principal Nimba tribe , the Gio . |
| 28 | The architect was Thomas Rickman , who had got together with a local ironmaster , John Cragg , and built St George 's Church at Everton in 1814 with much cast iron in the structure . |
| 29 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 30 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |