Example sentences of "who [vb past] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Harry ’ had a paddock full of mares who lived in a semi wild state , receiving little handling and no extra feed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 8 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 9 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 10 | At one point , one of the pupils renders ‘ … who lived in a pretty house with a large garden ’ as ‘ … who lived in a palace house with a little grandfather ’ . |
| 11 | She hesitated , remembering the large rambling house she 'd grown up in and the hours she had spent with Mrs Richards , their cook and housekeeper , who lived in a self-contained flat over the double garage . |
| 12 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 13 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 14 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 15 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 16 | Pupils could select areas of a historical map , for example , and call up further screens of related data or sources — the census records of families who lived in a particular house , perhaps . |
| 17 | Didier had class-mates who lived in the extensive nineteenth-century houses , set back in their own grounds , on the hill behind the rue Victorie . |
| 18 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 19 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 20 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |
| 21 | There were only three spaces available on a concreted section of the front garden and I normally left these for the use of Mrs Bradshaw and the two families who lived in the second-floor flats . |
| 22 | There was a peremptory sharpness to the knock which announced the presence of Mrs Bradshaw , a lady in her early sixties who lived in the next-door flat . |
| 23 | Harold was as well-mannered , she considered , as anyone in the University , including the stiff old Prebendary Porkadder , who lived in the next-door house with his housekeeper . |
| 24 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 25 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 26 | A section of the hardboard wall was tugged aside , and Chrissie glimpsed the pale , unshaven features of the man who lived in the concealed room . |
| 27 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 28 | The grid street plan is believed to have originated earlier and further east , possibly in Mesopotamia , but the concept is familiarly associated with the name of Hippodamos , a Greek philosopher and town planner who lived in the early fifth century B.C. This is due to Aristotle who ascribed its invention to Hippodamos who was born in Miletos . |
| 29 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 30 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |