Example sentences of "[noun] who [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 2 | We were again treated to the usual excellent Dunmurry hospitality and cordially welcomed by the Club Captain , Bob Gourley who was a guest at the Competition and meal . |
| 3 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 4 | For the first time in my life I had a lover who was a companion . |
| 5 | On my way out of the office that first day I fell over the only other disabled student in the college who was a wheelchair user . |
| 6 | Paul Gascoigne 's nightclub assailant who was a paragon of publicity-shy discretion just like |
| 7 | You wo n't find it easy to name an important critic who was a critic , and nothing else ; that is , until quite recently . |
| 8 | Roberto Lui Wu , a congressman who was a member of Fujimori 's small political party , was shot dead by masked gunmen as he had lunch in a Lima market yesterday . |
| 9 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 10 | If there was any sign of a rastrellamento in the neighbouring villages or in our own , a carabiniere who was a friend of the family used to cycle over and warn her . |
| 11 | All this was achieved at the cost of only two S.A.S. soldiers killed — Captain Roy Bradford and a trooper who was a mechanic for the jeeps , both casualties in the one incident — and seven men wounded . |
| 12 | ‘ The old lady who was a matron ? |
| 13 | Er the er the lady he was a widower and his , er his f er he was with a lady who was a widow and erm I know for a fact that she 'd not spent a penny , she had n't p you know for a you know , of the trip or , or he just would n't let her , I mean , I mean you , you 've got to have some money have n't you to keep |
| 14 | No right , there 's this lady who was a prostitute and she 'd got a daughter . |
| 15 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | A girl who was a hairdresser gave Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia a blue rinse . |
| 17 | On each of these occasions , Freddie was with someone else , a spectacularly good-looking girl who was a nurse at the local hospital . |
| 18 | It tells the story of the sudden death of a young girl who was a liar . |
| 19 | And there 's the message , not to mention the other girl who was a witness ! ’ |
| 20 | With finance coming partly from the Parent-Teacher Association ( PTA ) and partly from capitation , the library was gutted , refurbished and painted during the summer holidays , the labour being provided by teachers , fifth-form and sixth-form pupil librarians , the caretaker and a parent who was a builder . |
| 21 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 22 | McLean was described by the prosecution as a divorced alcoholic who was a friend of the dead woman . |
| 23 | Why could n't she live with granny and grandpa , and help care for them , like Dorothy the sister who was a couple of years older ? |
| 24 | We often used to squat on them until chased away by Mr. Dean who was a horse dealer . |
| 25 | Today 's reading was written nearly 400 years ago by a poet called John Donne who was a clergyman , the Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral in 1621 . |
| 26 | Erm I think she was a teacher , she 's got a brother Jim who was a housemaster at School in Suffolk , last I heard of him , I saw him mm probably in the nineteen f fifties I should think . |
| 27 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 28 | ‘ Apart from once having a porter who was a burglar , I think it is . |
| 29 | Harriet married a William who was a gamekeeper . |
| 30 | Harriet married er William who was a gamekeeper . |