Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ , ‘ Fish ! ’ and ‘ Meat pies ! ’ and on every corner stood tipplers who sold drinks to passers-by out of small , iron-hooped barrels . |
| 2 | TWO TURKS who sold kidneys for transplants in London were in so much pain when they were discharged that one had to carry the other out of the hospital , the General Medical Council 's disciplinary committee heard yesterday . |
| 3 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 4 | To the ancient moralists the Allazon was the man who laid claim to possessions and to achievements which did not belong to him in order to exalt himself more . |
| 5 | The first people to reach this remote peninsula were the Old Stone Age people who sought shelter in caves such as Hoyle 's Mouth near Tenby and Priory Farm Cave at Monkton . |
| 6 | But would it be so absurd for those who sought refuge in tranquilisers or pep pills to try instead a course of Beethoven , Mozart or Chopin ? |
| 7 | ( In addition , of those who sought advice in mergers and acquisitions , a third used solicitors . ) |
| 8 | A devil in human form , who cheated Death for centuries unknown ; a man with appetites so base they lay beneath satiation ; a necromancer , torturer of the dead , dismemberer of spirits ; a vileness made flesh ; a wizard , a scholar , a monster . |
| 9 | Knights who made contact with men of this kind could not but be touched by their qualities . |
| 10 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 11 | John Galt 's position with the Canada Company was undermined by jealous rivals and land speculators , who made allegations of irregularities in his accounts , with the result that he was recalled to London and dismissed . |
| 12 | The luminaries he 'd entertained over the decades — the defecting dancers and minor spies , the addicted debutantes , the rock stars with Messianic leanings and the bishops who made idols of barrow-boys — they 'd all had their moments of glory , then fallen . |
| 13 | These are two of the messages which emerged from a small-scale survey of individuals who made enquiries about courses but who did not appear to follow up earlier expressions of interest . |
| 14 | Despite the ‘ ceasefire ’ , considerable bitterness remained in several quarters , much of it focusing on Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , Speaker of parliament , who described ministers as children who had lost their way . |
| 15 | IMF officials who visited Moscow for talks on Aug. 24-26 said , however , that Russian authorities , including Gerashchenko , were still in general agreement on the plans . |
| 16 | I agreed with the other hon. Member who mentioned radios in cabs — they are being introduced into all new cabs and into existing cabs . |
| 17 | That may go against the grain for some AGP leaders , who entered politics as advocates of non-violence . |
| 18 | Court told of hacker who caused chaos for kicks |
| 19 | Indeed , even a trader who withheld credit from women simply because they are women could be within the law if he could show that women were unreliable payers . |
| 20 | And here was a liberator who opened doors for ladies and never attempted to force his attentions on me . |
| 21 | THE KING WHO DECLARED WAR ON ANIMALS |
| 22 | Nick , who paid £240 in fines , said it was worth it . |
| 23 | Bartram , 24 , who joined Bournemouth from Wolves last year , has already been the target of a £300,000 bid from Blackburn during the summer . |
| 24 | We went together to the yard of an old man who bred worms for fishermen and bought a jarful for M. Bluot . |
| 25 | There were demonstrators in monkey suits and even a man in a devil costume who served chilli to spectators . |
| 26 | She vigorously criticized William Smellie [ q.v. ] , who taught midwifery to surgeons using a leather mannequin , but she also considered it unethical to oblige poor women in charitable institutions to give birth in the presence of male students . |
| 27 | It may not be a coincidence , therefore , that four of the five individuals who developed leukaemia at ages 5–24 in Thurso in the years 1979–88 were incomers — and also that four were born in the years 1969–74 , the birth cohort with the greatest proportion of incomers . |
| 28 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 29 | The car-crushing came courtesy of Vinnie Parkes , Miss Dyson 's ex-boyfriend , who swore revenge after arguments when the couple split up four months ago . |
| 30 | The logic of this defied Irish women who were forced to deduce that the spectacle of women wielding pints must offend male sensibilities at a very deep level , especially those who equated pint-downing by women with lesbian leisure . |