Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than one was caught by a pair of squealing girls , who gleefully anointed them with kitchen grease and then fled with the warrior clanking in pursuit . |
| 2 | But what , of course , was not known to me , nor to Mr Smith , nor to my Rhodesian adviser who obviously knew nothing about Rhodesia , was the relationship between the tribal chiefs and the tribes : the chiefs do what the tribes tell them , not the other way round . |
| 3 | This was evidently the work of Calum and Effie , our immediate neighbours , who soon greeted us in person and helped us to settle in . |
| 4 | In August 1942 I was delivered to No 7 Squadron at RAF Oakington by an oppo , Geoff Wornersley , who shortly followed me to PFF . |
| 5 | He seems to have grown up rather a solitary boy , and afterwards not by nature a businessman — unlike his brother , who quickly outstripped him in enterprise , property , and prosperity . |
| 6 | Objective rather than objectionable was the unanimous verdict of the proletariat who always addressed her as Miss Read . |
| 7 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 8 | The three incumbents , Neely , Ross Dykes , and Bruce Taylor , were joined by Glenn Turner , m Lance Cairns ( who also offered himself as coach if Lees did n't stand ) , and Bruce Morrison ( who dismissed Dexter and Parfitt in his only Test , in 1962–63 ) . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , Sunley is now on to his sixth manager , after starting his career at Middlesbrough under Bruce Rioch , who also took him to Millwall . |
| 10 | In 1832 the mill was sold to Henry Daubney , who later sold it to Samuel Hadley . |
| 11 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 12 | ‘ The boss at Compulsion is a guy called Chris Hughes who originally signed us for Phonogram , so it was almost like starting over again . |
| 13 | That they are the work of his old age is significant , and was important to Hardy , who frequently associated himself with Verdi or the writers of ancient Greece who continued to produce of their best late in life . |
| 14 | He was educated by a private tutor in France and Germany , and in 1862–4 worked in the London office of the builder Sir Samuel Morton Peto [ q.v. ] , who then sent him to Russia as an assistant engineer on railway works . |
| 15 | ‘ Friends For Fitness ’ was a pilot scheme whereby a register of volunteer ‘ friends ’ was kept by the ‘ On Line ’ sports enquiry agency , who then matched them with enquirers about sport . |
| 16 | Customers who recently sent anything by post to Book Data are asked to contact Vesna Nall on . |