Example sentences of "who were [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Young Left-wingers threw eggs and stones at Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Richard von Weizsaecker , who were taking part in the Berlin rally . |
| 3 | The Hong Kong Government has defended its decision to deny entry to two well known Chinese pro-democracy activists , Mr Chen Jun and Mr Wang Min , who were to take part in a seminar organised by students on the democracy movement in China . |
| 4 | There have been a number of other people who were given £50 by the company for information which led to the presentation of a sales proposal to a new client . |
| 5 | The flotation has been triggered by a group of US charities who were given shares by the magazine 's founders and now want to cash in their holdings . |
| 6 | The event , organised by Angela Ainslie and Phyllis Bell , attracted seven teams who were asked questions on a wide range of topics . |
| 7 | Seb groaned , but — with the impressive upper-class confidence in his own innate superiority which always impressed Nutty enormously — waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys who were dragging Jazz down the road by his hair . |
| 8 | The chief headmen , who were called mudaliyars in the Low Country and ratemahatmayas in Kandyan districts were persons of high status and much wealth . |
| 9 | Taking time off from the Japan Festival at the Royal Albert Hall , the Sumo wrestlers encouraged even the smallest participants who were raising money for the Spastics society . |
| 10 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 11 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 12 | MacAllister , a miller at Ardnish on the Rinns , was named as one of the four men who were taken prisoner on the pirate ship " Bloody Yankee " when she is supposed to have sailed into Lochindaal , in 1813 . |
| 13 | Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery . |
| 14 | Because its prime concern had to be the restoration of viability , then where that implied a loss of jobs , the Agency would only recommend rescue if the workforce understood and accepted the implication , would arrange for the selection of those who were to become members of the co-operative and , by exclusion , decide who would lose their jobs . |
| 15 | The report , or news of it , attracted the attention of W. H. Feldman and H. C. Hinshaw , who were studying drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota . |
| 16 | The British , who were considered part of a European racial group , were the ruling race . |