Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 2 | Donald Trump left Ivana , a Czech , for Georgia peach Marla Maples and now plans to sue his former wife , who agreed to a gagging order over their marriage as part of her $10m divorce settlement . |
| 3 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 4 | Mr Sheppard , who qualified as a chartered secretary at the beginning of his career , believes their skills will become highly relevant during the 1990s . |
| 5 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 6 | However , Alistair Clark , president of the Law Society of Scotland , which represents 6,400 solicitors , criticised the decision to allow banks , building societies and other authorised practitioners who complied with a statutory code of conduct to charge for conveyancing . |
| 7 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 8 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 9 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 10 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |
| 11 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 12 | The Kaszubian people who lived along the western Danzig suburbs were badly affected by the changes of Prussian and German rule . |
| 13 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 14 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 15 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 17 | It was true however that Doris Smythe , an elderly widow who lived on the opposite side of their suburban road in a small rented house , did n't like too much bustle around her . |
| 18 | Sommerville , of Redburn , Bonhill , Dunbartonshire , admitted stabbing and murdering Mr Friel , who lived on the same estate , in the local shopping centre on 30 October last . |
| 19 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 20 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 21 | One day they decided to visit their best friends , the three billy-goats Gruff who lived over the rickety bridge . |
| 22 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 23 | Prenzlauer Berg was one of the most deprived and crime-ridden areas of East Berlin , a haven for the criminals who lived off the poor and an ideal proving ground for the young officer . |
| 24 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 25 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 26 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 27 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 28 | ‘ Harry ’ had a paddock full of mares who lived in a semi wild state , receiving little handling and no extra feed . |
| 29 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |
| 30 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |