Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was part of a small group of women who met regularly above a shabby public house in Baggot Street to talk feminism and discuss the current state of Irish politics . |
| 2 | On the final tumultuous day , foreign visitors began arriving : two English girls , daughters of country parsons , who had hitch-hiked round the world and about ten Japanese tourists who moved cautiously in a close-packed pod bristling with lenses . |
| 3 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 4 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 5 | Mothers who dreamed fondly of a white wedding , a handsome bridegroom and grandchildren soon on the scene , may find that their daughter is planning to marry a man her father 's age , who has an ex-wife and some teenage children of his own . |
| 6 | Up until recently , we had a resident who went across on a regular basis but her health deteriorated , and we have at least three or four who do wander about the shops . |
| 7 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 8 | Mrs Purry , who looked suitably like a black Persian cat , then brought the coffee in . |
| 9 | Deems was a soft and highly coloured man who spoke always in a low voice . |
| 10 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 11 | I prefer the consistent VIKING ROCKET , who ran well for a long way behind Captain Dibble in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 12 | An attempted coup in August was frustrated by the timorous behaviour of the Abuna , who stayed away from a crucial meeting . |