Example sentences of "who was [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Schmerhom , however , who was despatched to lead a negotiating team to meet the Republican leaders . |
| 2 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
| 3 | Recently I met a speechreader who was struggling to understand a lady who spoke English with a French accent . |
| 4 | Gilbey , who was taped making a phone call to Diana , said he is still friendly with her but would do nothing to embarrass her . |
| 5 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 6 | If this was anything more than a straightforward clerical error — the only parallel case being Robert Harold of Hungerford , who was stated to own a copyhold worth 8s. — it poses the question , was customary land ever assessed , whether by accident or design ? |
| 7 | It was then we lost our guide , who was called to help a Bulgarian who 'd had an accident . |
| 8 | In Albert v. Lavin it was assumed that the defendant was guilty of assaulting in the execution of his duty an off-duty policeman who was seeking to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Hopper , the man who was injured ran a child prostitution ring , ’ Nicholson said , his tone a little calmer now . |
| 10 | Corbett grabbed a groom who was trying to lead a horse to the stables at the far end of the bailey but the fool could not understand him and Corbett simply drew a blank look , followed by a shrug and muttered curses . |
| 11 | Officers also want to trace another man who was trying to hire a taxi in the area where the body was found . |
| 12 | And neither Hopkins , who had plenty of journalistic work , or Miles , who was running a bookshop , or Haynes , who was trying to run a theatre company , wanted to edit it , and probably could n't anyway . |
| 13 | And just then the policeman saw another man , who was running to catch a bus . |
| 14 | In that case a car dealer who was negotiating to buy a car told the seller that there was no possibility of repairing it and that it was fit only to lie scrapped . |
| 15 | Other sketchbooks reproduced in this volume include those of Robert Henri who recorded a trip to Spain in 1906 following the death of his wife , and of David Levine who was commissioned to do a series of drawings of European cities and buildings by Esquire Magazine in 1960 . |
| 16 | Mr Game , who was commissioned to write a report on the incident for Greenpeace , said two milestones in the life-cycle of the Shetland wildlife must be crossed before the full extent of the damage will be known . |
| 17 | She turned and looked towards the child , who was sitting hugging a doll . |
| 18 | If every one who was offended wrote a letter , that would be a start . |
| 19 | ‘ No one who was going to make a malarkey out of it , my lord . |
| 20 | I met one girl , Kidza Mugerwa , who was going to become a pathologist . |
| 21 | You get people like Belson who was allowed to do a survey research of public opinion . |
| 22 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 23 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 24 | An Asian man who was forced to wed a girl in Pakistan has had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | An Asian man who was forced to wed a girl in Pakistan has had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |