Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Left-wingers threw eggs and stones at Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Richard von Weizsaecker , who were taking part in the Berlin rally . |
| 2 | But the individual members of Lloyd 's , mostly people who were dabbling way over their head in a subject about which they knew little , were often persuaded to hang on for things to improve . |
| 3 | The Hong Kong Government has defended its decision to deny entry to two well known Chinese pro-democracy activists , Mr Chen Jun and Mr Wang Min , who were to take part in a seminar organised by students on the democracy movement in China . |
| 4 | For the people who were buying meat from you . |
| 5 | The Alans , who were given land around Valence in c. 440 , and in Gallia Ulterior two years later , were the second . |
| 6 | These villages were settled by colonists who were given exemption from feudal obligations to the local Croatian nobility in return for their willingness to take up arms against the Turks . |
| 7 | Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery . |
| 8 | Among those whom the author singled out for praise were Edward III , who recalled his victory against the French at Sluys in June 1340 by introducing a fighting ship onto the noble of England , and Henry V , who built great ships and dealt firmly with those who were causing trouble to English shipping . |
| 9 | established in 1895 by Sidney Webb with the aim of contributing ‘ to the improvement of society by promoting the impartial study of its problems and the training of those who were to translate policy into action ’ . |
| 10 | What was witnessed by British troops , however , was the initial treatment by Tito 's partisans of the Croats surrendered around Bleiburg , including many civilians who were marched north-east through Austria towards the Yugoslav frontier near Lavamund . |
| 11 | In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination . |
| 12 | Taking time off from the Japan Festival at the Royal Albert Hall , the Sumo wrestlers encouraged even the smallest participants who were raising money for the Spastics society . |
| 13 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 14 | Mr Major hit out at pessimists who were undermining confidence by talking Britain down through ‘ messages of gloom ’ : |
| 15 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 16 | MacAllister , a miller at Ardnish on the Rinns , was named as one of the four men who were taken prisoner on the pirate ship " Bloody Yankee " when she is supposed to have sailed into Lochindaal , in 1813 . |
| 17 | Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery . |
| 18 | He added that the freeing of Americans and others who were held hostage by Dignity Battalion gunmen would be ‘ a priority for us today ’ . |
| 19 | These ladies in full flight scared the pants off the eunuchs who were standing guard on their tees , and who immediately dropped their balls and scarpered with the wives in hot ‘ pur ’ suit . |
| 20 | The British , who were considered part of a European racial group , were the ruling race . |
| 21 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 22 | One of the troopers was passing his helmet around his colleagues , who were putting money into it . |
| 23 | Changing fashions in popular natural history did not affect those who were doing research in botany and zoology directly , except through the demand for books . |
| 24 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 25 | William of Malmesbury , who was collecting material for his histories at Canterbury at this time , put the news of their discovery into his Gesta Regum , and inserted the complete texts under the year 1072 into his slightly later Gesta Pontificum . |
| 26 | And the Thompson woman who was administering glass for eight months , only it did n't take , so Freddie Bywaters had to stick a knife into the man near Ilford Station . |
| 27 | Rildia Bee had finished giving a piano lesson to a student who was experiencing difficulty with some rather complicated passages in a sonata , and the student had left the house . |
| 28 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 29 | Gen. Michel Aoun , the rebel Maronite leader who was granted asylum in France on Aug. 29 [ see p. 38405 ] , also criticized the government , in his case " because they turned over their country to Syria " . |
| 30 | A friend of mine had a son called Rick , who was learning brick-laying at a local college . |