Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 2 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 3 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 4 | In the second half , Alexander made two good chances for himself , but it was Bicester who deservedly equalised after a sustained spell of pressure when Mark Butler stabbed home a loose ball from a corner . |
| 5 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 6 | Stumps were uprooted , an impromptu lap of honour instigated by Desmond Haynes , who quickly collapsed in a tearful heap , and Richardson snatched an Antiguan flag in scenes of wild abandon . |
| 7 | Commenting on this recently , evangelist Eric Delve asked : ‘ Who ever heard of a six-week training course to teach girls who have got engaged how to tell their friends ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If he does n't eat he 'll just get thinner and thinner and who ever heard of a small , thin dinosaur ? ’ |
| 9 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 10 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
| 11 | Also present was Mrs. Blair , mother of Eric Blair ( 1903–1950 ) , alias George Orwell , who also played as a junior , and whose father , a golfer of considerable skill , became Club Secretary in 1912 . |
| 12 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 13 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 14 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |
| 15 | Those gruesome robots which had restrained the trio — and the Astropath — reminded Jaq so strongly of images he had viewed of traitor legionnaires , the polluted renegades spawned by the would-be Emperor-slayers of long ago who now lurked in a certain terrible , twisted zone of the galaxy … |
| 16 | The latter is an unusual work because it is about people who really lived at a particular period and who had particular relationships with each other . |
| 17 | Other notables this year were the backflipping roller skaters Richard Mason and Mick Beausang who even threw in a half twist until he broke his wrist . |
| 18 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 19 | Heaton and co , who recently returned from a six week tour of America , are set to play three November dates at Birmingham NEC . |
| 20 | Mr Wareing , who recently retired as a chief executive of Speke Training and Education Centre , was Merseyside Citizen of the Year in 1989/90 . |
| 21 | There must be a steady proportion of grass-rooters who never listened to a single word of the conference proper , spending the mornings awash with coffee , lunchtime with lager , and tea with Typhoo . |
| 22 | Mr Lang had lunch with senior Highland Region councillors , who afterwards argued for a single Highland authority based on the region to replace the current system . |