Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun prp] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | wife of a London goldsmith who became mistress to King Edward IV about 1470 . |
| 2 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most important difference between the ordinary and duty solicitor is illustrated by the following statement of a Cardiff solicitor who discussed the purpose of vocational training through articles and experience : |
| 4 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 5 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 6 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
| 7 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 8 | But today , Odessa 's chances looked much brighter thanks to the intervention of a Northamptonshire headmaster who has brought hundreds of Bosnians to Britain . |
| 9 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dublin was the focal point of a Cambridge side who played the ball long , got it forward quickly and were condemned for their tactics . |
| 12 | John Dalton was the younger son of a Lancashire family who feathered his nest by dubious means while carrying out the office of agent for the Earl of Lancaster as constable of Pickering Castle , a position he lost in 1322 as a result of the unsuccessful rebellion of the earl who was subsequently executed . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Police say they are increasingly concerned for the safety of a Cowley teenager who 's been missing from home for nearly two months Wasem Salim Katana who 's fifteen , was last seen in a taxi on the twelfth of September . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |
| 17 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 18 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 19 | THE inquests into the deaths of a Scarborough couple who were found dead in a suicide pact at nearby Wykeham Forest on Saturday opened yesterday . |
| 20 | THE wife of a Darlington man who helped design one of Britain 's first passenger buses has died . |
| 21 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 22 | Radio Cleveland broadcaster Alan Wright said he was overwhelmed by the response when he raised the case of a Redcar man who had to call the police to get rid of Sure Style salesmen . |
| 23 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 24 | Room 89 is haunted , according to the security guard , by the ghost of an RAF batman who still brushes his master 's phantom uniform . |
| 25 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 26 | The entire school 's Christian input restricted to two Bible verses on a Friday morning and the opinions of an RE teacher who does n't even believe in God ? |
| 27 | Tonight the man who commands British Forces in the Gulf is named , while the wife of an Oxford man who 's stranded in Kuwait says her family now face homelessness . |
| 28 | The wife of an Oxford man who 's stranded in occupied Kuwait , is facing an uncertain future with no sign of her husband getting out . |
| 29 | The parents of an Oxford haemophiliac who recently died after contracting the H I V virus from contaminated blood , have written to the Prime Minister calling for a quick , out of court compensation deal . |
| 30 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |