Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 2 | What about the quarrelling Australian couple who plunged over a cliff in separate vans after a St Valentine 's day row and a chase through northern Sydney . |
| 3 | Who lived here a merchant or somebody ? |
| 4 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 5 | Born before 1700 , James Stewart ( the son of John Stewart of Ardsheil ) was the illegitimate elder brother of Charles Stewart , fifth of Ardsheil , who led out the Appin Stewarts in the rebellion of 1745 . |
| 6 | The brothers , who fought out the finish of the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham 's Sunday fixture , are heading for another showdown in the Bula Hurdle over the same course and distance . |
| 7 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 8 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 9 | Three years ago , nobody who read either the front , middle or back pages of a newspaper could have missed reading about the exploits of these two mega-stars . |
| 10 | For John Dunlop , 78 , from Edinburgh , who read out the names of some of those who died , the memories came flooding back . |
| 11 | What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ? |
| 12 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 13 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 14 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 15 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 16 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 17 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 18 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 19 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 20 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 21 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 22 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 23 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 24 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 25 | It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster . |
| 26 | Many thanks to everyone who contributed especially the children for all their artistic efforts ! |
| 27 | She turned and was relieved to see someone who bore absolutely no resemblance to the man she had described to Roger and Caroline . |
| 28 | Fifty-three years old when he came to the throne , and crippled by the kick of a horse in his youth , what could he do against all these turbulent and forceful lords , his brother Albany , his son Rothesay , and these Black Douglases who bore almost the prestige of a royal dynasty ? |
| 29 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 30 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |