Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 2 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 3 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 4 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 5 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 6 | We had a visitor for our last day on the ranges : the Army Commander , Lieutenant-General Sir David Ramsbotham , who had commanded us in 3rd Armoured Division during our last tour in Germany , in 1985 . |
| 7 | The people who had put her in such a tizzy were a solicitor , a computer analyst and someone in advertising . |
| 8 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 9 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 10 | The metal-winged VH-BAF joined the Airworld Collection in 1988 , who continued to maintain it in airworthy condition . |