Example sentences of "who was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 2 | England 's one fitness doubt tomorrow concerns Phillip DeFreitas , who was resting a sore elbow yesterday , but otherwise their major problem is whether to play both their spinners . |
| 3 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 4 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 5 | Port Essington , the most remote , dangerous , and perhaps most promising , hunting ground left on his itinerary , and which Gould himself had intended to explore before his triumphant visit to Namoi , was designated to his capable assistant Gilbert , who was staying an extra year in Australia . |
| 6 | Sir William , who was expressing a personal view because of internal differences over the reorganisation , said that to split the NCC into three would remove a strategic overview in formulating national policies . |
| 7 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 8 | Erich Riedl , the right-wing junior aerospace minister who was to give an official speech at the do , was hauled over the coals by his bosses . |
| 9 | Now it was she who was using the past tense . |
| 10 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 11 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 12 | Wellington looked to an aide who was seated a few places down the table . |
| 13 | A boss who was expecting a quiet birthday with his family at home was taken completely by surprise when his highly desirable secretary invited him back to her home for a drink after work . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't the kids all phoo off ? ’ a scrawny , shaven-skulled youth who was lacking a little finger , remarked at the ceiling . |
| 15 | Wiser than Jenny , who was chasing a romantic will-o'-the-wisp and who would end up with more heartache . |
| 16 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 17 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 18 | He was a bulky young man , who was wearing a black coat and a white shirt ; the comparison with a panda was unkind but accurate . |
| 19 | The man , who was wearing a black balaclava tried to pull the boy to the ground , but he managed to struggle free . |
| 20 | In a more sober account , Cendrars ’ first wife Félicie remembers seeing Modi , poor and preoccupied , escorting Jeanne , who was wearing a white shawl which served as a cloak to hide her figure , across the Avenue de la Gare . |
| 21 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 22 | Last night police were hunting the bomber , who was wearing a green rubber coat and carrying a red , blue and yellow shoulder bag . |
| 23 | Mrs Hnatiuk , who was wearing a fast-looking white jockey cap , was only two rows in front of her and Mrs Frizzell did not know how to bear the suspense . |
| 24 | They also want to speak to an elderly man who was wearing a brown jacket and was refused entry to the bank because he arrived just as the robber had left . |
| 25 | 7 laps in and out and around Great Malvern , leading the race into Worcestershire was Nico Matten a young Belgium rider who was wearing the coveted yellow jersey for the first time . |
| 26 | They took a tiny , cramped lift to the top floor of the building and were admitted by Hawick , who was wearing an expensive blue-green sweater , and slacks , the clothes sitting easily on his long , slim frame , the dark hair beautifully cut , a little too long , flopping on his forehead . |
| 27 | You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases … |
| 28 | But the woman who was born the youngest of seven children in Tiger Bay in Cardiff has always lived life to the full . |
| 29 | The new rules came in after Treasury solicitors agreed to settle the case of a German law student who was granted a judicial review of the Government 's refusal to reimburse EC students ' tuition fees . |
| 30 | This chore fell , more often than not , upon his area whip , the unlucky ‘ Worthy ’ Evans , who was owed a tidy sum . |