Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O . |
2 | ‘ I knew a girl who got hooked on cocaine . |
3 | A huge smothering hug as well to all the marshals who got battered by wind and rain whilst staffing the check points all day . |
4 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
5 | You get a sixteen seventeen year old who 'd interested in motorbike , he wants to take his motorbike to th where he lives . |
6 | Evening spent in a bar at a pre-arranged ‘ reunion ’ of everybody who 'd met on route . |
7 | She reluctantly held out her hand , palm upwards , and felt like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd misbehaved in class . |
8 | They were concerned that the object might have been a hang glider who 'd got into difficulty . |
9 | The prosecution say that she was plucked from the bridge by Hagans , who 'd lain in wait for the right victim and then pounced . |
10 | As it was cruel to Eileen , who 'd bled to death after the birth of her tiny baby . |
11 | Patients were invited to participate by letter and those who consented attended for outpatient review . |
12 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
13 | Darwin was a member of the landed aristocracy who had flirted with theology at Cambridge before becoming a highly respected naturalist . |
14 | Many Tories who had flirted with Jacobitism developed second thoughts in 1715 . |
15 | None of the reformed drinkers ( five with biopsy proven cirrhosis ) , who had abstained from alcohol for at least two months had raised values . |
16 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
17 | In 1932 he edited Escapers All , derived from a series of talks given by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps . |
18 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
19 | The remaining four records were of patients who had presented to neurology departments after 1983 . |
20 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
21 | The non-church-goers in the community proved hard to win , and those who had lapsed from church attendance some twenty years previously saw no need to reconsider at their time of life . |
22 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
23 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
24 | In a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard and Ceolwulf , bishop of Lindsey , written 793–6 , Charlemagne asked them to intercede with Offa for certain individuals who had gone into exile with their lord , Hringstan , who had now died . |
25 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
26 | Richard saw , with reservations , where his duty lay , and put Dreadnought on the market through the agency of an old RNVR friend of his , who had gone into partnership , on coming out of the forces , as an estate agent in Halkin Street . |
27 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
28 | Refereeing — especially some of the key areas in sevens such as high tackles and off-the-ball obstruction — was of a consistently sound level , though the tendency for players to dive on top of other players who had gone to deck to retrieve ball , which is illegal , went repeatedly unchecked , as did crossing . |
29 | There was the simple failure to recruit adequate replacements for those who had gone , particularly those who had gone to rugby league . |
30 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |