Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun prp] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 2 | The second body seen by Cobbe in 1857 was that of a Miss Johnson who had died of phthisis aged twenty-four at the Lock Hospital in 1774 . |
| 3 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 4 | The bills of lading covering the cargo were in the hands of a Madame Bihi who was the accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to the United Nations Organisations in Geneva . |
| 5 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 6 | I recognized them as hands who rode for a Mr. Wolgast who supplied beef to the reservation up at San Carlos . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's for a Madame Eglantine who calls there . |
| 8 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 9 | Miss Mates had brought in Sally-Anne 's basket after Dr Neil had intervened to save her , and driven off a Jem Higgins who was by then a little fearful at having laid Sally-Anne so low . |
| 10 | A story about a R.A.F. Flight-Sergeant who noticed that a recruit was still wearing his hat in church . |
| 11 | Roland listened politely and said , ‘ Do you know anything about a Miss LaMotte who wrote children 's stories and religious poetry in the 1850s or thereabouts ? ’ |
| 12 | Are you acquainted if only by repute with a Mr Landor who is a poet ? |
| 13 | And in Butcher Row there were 29 butchers , including a Master Butcher who features in the books . |
| 14 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 15 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 16 | The trouble was that Arnold said he had had a letter from a Mr Anderson who wanted to caddie for him as well . |
| 17 | On Christmas Eve 1817 a special meeting of the directors was held to consider a claim from a Mr. Simmonds who had suffered damage to himself , as well as a broken window and injury to his goods , from the horse-and-cart belonging to the House . |
| 18 | Kartuz itself is pinned to a Captain Kartuzov who appears just once in The Possessed , and then only by name . |
| 19 | together with the Bishop of Chester , applied on 12th October for his removal ; the Goldsmiths complied , paid £5 to a Mr. Nicholson who had taught at the School in the meanwhile , and made John Cobb the new Master on 8th January 1602 . |
| 20 | It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) . |
| 21 | When Mr. Anderson left Glasgow in 1824 to go to Liverpool to take the post of Headmaster at the new institution there , a short time elapsed without any Sunday Meeting until it was revived by a J. Ferguson who was an assistant teacher at the Glasgow Institution . |
| 22 | The photographs also indicated that the original had two trains ( going and striking ) and indeed there were some interesting notes prepared by a Dr Byrom who was an enthusiastic amateur clock repairer , and who overhauled the clock in 1970 , but these were couched in very general terms . |
| 23 | It appears to be a copy of what Burton called ‘ the oldest and best ’ of the paintings , which is a smaller work of c.1800 ( 24 by 18 inches ) and was painted by a Mr. Everard who was buried in St. George 's Church around 1835 . |
| 24 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 25 | Then in Hill House , just outside the mill , where Mr Besley now lives , there was a grocer 's shop kept by a Mr Flick who was also the village carrier , taking goods to and from Ipswich . |
| 26 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 27 | There was a little shop there run by a Mr Nixon who would stay open all hours for the hired lads and lassies . |
| 28 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 29 | The 130 pieces in a ‘ Booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v : vi : vii : and viii : parts for voyces or Instrumentes ’ dating from c. 1578 , some years later than the Mulliner Book , consist of vocal pieces without text and ‘ In nomines ’ or other cantus firmus compositions , but includes only a single ‘ phancy ’ for five parts by an Edward Blancks who is nearly as obscure as the ‘ Newman ’ of the Mulliner Book . |