Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 2 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 3 | Puck Fair is a trio of accomplished Irish musical emigrants who came together in the United States to perform music which has been described as a unique fusion between the spontaneity of jazz and the driving rhythms of traditional Irish jigs , reels and hornpipes . |
| 4 | Liz Boatman , who played professionally in the States before being reinstated as an amateur , captains the side for a second time and is delighted at the way the growth of the pro circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
| 5 | It was a demoralised Don Peters who drove away from The London Hilton and the all-American farewell party that had been laid on for him by Clancy McGillicuddy . |
| 6 | Yes , that 's Doug Veitch , self-styled king of Caledonian Cajun swing , who flourished briefly in the London drinking holes of the mid-'80s . |
| 7 | The four-year-old who flew home from the US on Thursday after her lifesaving liver and bowel transplant operation was awake bright and early . |
| 8 | CART ( Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc. ) was founded in 1978 by Roger Penske and " Pat " Patrick who broke away from the United States Auto Club ( USAC ) to form their own series of races . |
| 9 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 10 | David was a war-leader of the Israelites ( who looked rather like the Franks to Charlemagne ) , but he was also the builder of the Jerusalem Temple . |
| 11 | The teacher shows a genuine photograph of a group of people who travelled together on the Oregon trail . |