Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franz Kupka , a Czech painter who had come to Paris in 1894 or 1895 , and who lived in an adjacent studio , was also drawn into contact with the Cubists . |
| 2 | A woman of 99 who lived in an old people 's home was a regular lecturer to one social work course . |
| 3 | Two other men were targeted by the attackers who swooped on an all-night ‘ rave ’ for teenagers at the Eclipse nightclub in Stockton 's Brunswick Street . |
| 4 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 5 | He left the chamber without answer , knowing the fate of those who failed on an imperial mission . |
| 6 | They are a one-time indie rock past , with disturbing goth-loving tendencies , who met at an Iggy Pop gig while studying at East Anglia University . |
| 7 | The ‘ Branch ’ was initially a rather loose organisation of Salford graduates who met on an irregular , informal basis for social events , such as visits to local restaurants . |
| 8 | They were all hearteningly well preserved and twinkling with renewed well-being , and none more so than Jim , 87 , and Mary , 91 , who met in an old people 's home and scandalised the staff by taking naps on the same bed , before deciding to make honest pensioners of each other . |
| 9 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 10 | THE DEATH of Harry Boot on 8 February at the age of 65 removes a distinguished figure from those who contributed in an outstanding way to the successful application of British science to radar during the Second World War . |
| 11 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 12 | Ballymoney grabbed the winner five minutes from full time when a deep cross from Neill found substitute Millar who headed into an empty Cookstown net . |
| 13 | The patients were grouped into those who had a disease extension to or beyond the sigmoid colon ( colitis ) and those who suffered from an isolated proctitis . |
| 14 | Up until the 1950s , it was difficult for any human beings who suffered from an allergic response to cats to become cat owners , no matter how much they longed to share their lives with a feline companion . |
| 15 | He was preferred there to John Ebbrell who played in an unfamiliar left-sided role and the ploy paid off . |
| 16 | During the year the Church B lost seven through death , nine moved out of the area , four of whom were elderly people who transferred to an old people 's home in another part of the town , and five to a ‘ better neighbourhood ’ . |
| 17 | The businessmen who last year jostled to fill Mr Collor 's campaign chest now sound like the turkeys who cackled for an early Christmas . |
| 18 | David , 35 , and Thorunn , 34 , who shone in an off-the-shoulder full length wedding gown with ivory matching headband , hosted a reception after the Winchester Cathedral ceremony before going on honeymoon . |
| 19 | ONE-year-old Neil Ferdowsian and his family , who belong to the Baha'i faith , were among hundreds who joined in an inter-faith service led by Bishop of Middlesbrough Augustine Harris on Saturday . |
| 20 | In New York , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali informed Alatas that the UN was studying the report of his special envoy , Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako , who arrived on an official visit to Indonesia on Feb. 8 and made a two-day visit to East Timor on Feb. 13-14 . |
| 21 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 22 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |
| 23 | Mr Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman — who called for an early contest — and Mr Donald Dewar , Scottish spokesman , were among the first senior party figures publicly to throw their weight behind the Shadow Chancellor 's campaign . |
| 24 | Claiming that the allied forces had a " game plan " which was being followed , he said that he sympathized with the motives of those who called for an indefinite air campaign , but that any decision on the launching of a ground offensive would be based on military advice ; there would be no " delay for the sake of delay , hoping that it would save lives " . |
| 25 | And she enjoyed the humour : the comic dignity of goats , with their vacant , pale , wide-angle eyes ( reminiscent of a well-known soap star ) , the retriever who collapsed in an untidy heap ( dogs were becoming outcasts , like smokers ) — in contrast to the neat pool of sleeping cat . |
| 26 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 27 | They are also trying to trace thieves who broke into an elderly woman 's house in Pendleton Road where they stole her pension book and her video recorder . |
| 28 | Three peace campaigners who broke into an American airbase and painted anti-war slogans on a B Fifty Two bomber have been ordered to pay sixteen hundred pounds in fines and costs . |
| 29 | VANDALS who broke into an Orange hall outside Armagh over the weekend damaged a large drum , smashed three windows and ransacked the interior . |
| 30 | AGONY Aunt Marje Proops , who confessed to an adulterous 30-year affair with a bachelor lawyer , may be in for more agony still . |