Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Another volley of musketry hammered from the French who were firing blind into the tall crops . |
2 | But he soon got into his stride , and began to develop a whole bestiary of characters who were to delight millions for the next twenty-three years . |
3 | The measures were felt to be particularly harsh by those catholic parents who were getting involved with the All Children Together movement . |
4 | Whitehouse was injured in the 10th minute after a clash of heads and five minutes later Spurs , who were thrashed 6–0 in the corresponding fixture last season , took the lead when striker Teddy Sheringham hit his fifth of the season . |
5 | The United States and United Kingdom authorities on Nov. 13 announced that they had filed charges against two Libyan nationals who were believed responsible for the bomb which exploded on an aircraft over Lockerbie , Scotland , in 1988 . |
6 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
7 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
8 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
9 | Hospital consultant John Miller said : ‘ There are children in that family who were becoming fond of the baby . |
10 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
11 | One Saturday night in the summer of 1966 police in Brooklyn apprehended sixteen teenagers of both sexes aged between sixteen and nineteen who were dancing naked in the street . |
12 | I have a neighbour with a toddler who was outgrowing several of the things I was looking for ; the pram came from her , and a few other things as well . |
13 | Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement . |
14 | The ELN claimed responsibility for the murder on Nov. 24 of Juan Barragán Ruiz , a Conservative Party ( PCC ) congressional deputy who was shot dead in the north-western city of Bucaramanga . |
15 | The latest victim Norman Truesdale , who was shot dead by the IRA in his shop in Century Street off the Oldpark Road on Wednesday night , was buried yesterday . |
16 | Eighteen patients admitted to hospital after team assessment were reviewed by the research psychiatrist and included in this study , but one subject who was seen first by the research psychiatrist and admitted after that interview as a matter of urgency was excluded , leaving a study sample of 100 cases . |
17 | Sequestered that weekend in sealed hotel rooms , without television , the jurors themselves could not enjoy it ; but the trial judge comforted the prosecutor , who was growing anxious about the delay , with the thought that he could watch it if he wanted , to pass the time . |
18 | The accredited representative , who was growing anxious about the amount of time being wasted while the flight recording remained unread , then told the magistrate that he was concerned that another BAC 1–11 might suffer a similar accident while they remained ignorant of its cause and that if this should happen the magistrate would have to bear the responsibility . |
19 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
20 | She was delighted to rediscover her cousin Linton , who was keeping warm by the fire . |
21 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
22 | In 1914 he had met Hans Arp , the French painter who was to become prominent in the new Dada movement , at the artists ' canteen in the Avenue du Maine . |
23 | In 1949 H.M.S.0. published an unusual document , A Story of a School , which was an account of movement-centred education advocated by a Birmingham headmaster , Peter Stone , who was to become one of the West Riding 's Physical Education Organisers . |
24 | Heathcliff jumped into the kitchen through the window , and started kicking and hitting Hindley , who was lying unconscious on the kitchen floor . |
25 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |