Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various artists who 'd worked at Art Futura in the past were contacted and invited to contribute . |
| 2 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 3 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 4 | The day began cold and blustery , in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted warm sunshine , but not even darkening skies could dampen the spirits of a crowd of over 700 Napier staff , students , guests and friends who had gathered at Napier 's Merchiston campus to witness a truly historic moment in Scotland 's history — the birth of a university . |
| 5 | On Aug. 15 itself some 3,000 riot police clashed with 10,000 dissidents who had gathered at Yonsei University in western Seoul with the intention of marching to the Panmunjom rally . |
| 6 | Several smoke bombs were thrown by Catholic youngsters who had gathered at Shipquay Street , stones were thrown and a policeman was knocked unconscious . |
| 7 | Two days later he was seen again by police this time on the town 's Valley Bridge approaching people and trying to talk to drivers who had stopped at traffic lights . |
| 8 | At first some of the monks were loath to enter on a long and expensive case before the pope , but they had among their number a man of mature years , called Thomas of Marlborough , who had been at the schools of Paris and who had taught at Oxford . |
| 9 | The armies arrayed in the fields outside Châteauroux contained many nobles who knew each other well , who had met at tournaments or on pilgrimages , who were cousins or neighbours . |
| 10 | The report concluded that the Fayed brothers , Mohamed and Ali , had ( i ) dishonestly misrepresented their background and wealth to the DTI for the purpose of persuading the Department in 1985 not to refer the acquisition to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) ; ( ii ) used their connection with the Sultan of Brunei to enable them to acquire the funds used in the acquisition ; ( iii ) repeated their lies to their advisers , who had accepted at face value what they were told and failed to check its accuracy ; and ( iv ) misrepresented the extent of their business assets to both the DTI and to the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 11 | Mr. Pedder , who had lived at Dove 's Nest ( near Low Wood , Windermere ) ‘ is a very good humoured man and a gentlemanly man when sober , but , nearly tipsy , is peevish and queer ’ . |
| 12 | The police would not necessarily assume that the bones in the graveyard were of people who had lived at Wyvis Hall , nor that those who had brought about their deaths had lived there . |
| 13 | In 1908 , he was appointed to excavate the remains of Glastonbury Abbey , and made use of the services of a friend , Captain John Bartlett , who , with automatic writing , brought through messages from monks who had lived at Glastonbury , together with detailed plans of the Abbey , showing a large , hitherto unknown , chapel at the eastern end , named after King Edgar . |
| 14 | In the market , she was told that it was Mrs Browning 's old hero , the French Emperor Louis Napoleon , who had landed at Genoa and pledged himself to help the Italians drive out the Austrians . |
| 15 | The numbers under his command had grown since he bad re-crossed the Border , with the accession of some additional clans and the arrival of 800 men , Scots and Irish formerly in the French service , including two squadrons of horse , who had landed at Montrose on 22 November . |
| 16 | Among them was G. H. Hitchings , who had worked at Harvard on the quantitative estimation of purines and on the purification of the anti-anaemia principle in liver , and at Western Reserve on studies which led later to the discovery of folic acid . |
| 17 | This was given unfortunate confirmation a month later by the arrest , as a Soviet spy , of the British-naturalized Austrian scientist , Klaus Fuchs , who had worked at Los Alamos . |
| 18 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 19 | A retired joiner who had worked at Smith 's Dock , Middlesbrough , fitting asbestos lagging in ships died in hospital due to asbestosis . |
| 20 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 21 | The first part of Captain Blood is based on the real-life misadventure of Henry Pitman , an English surgeon sentenced to death by Judge George Jeffreys [ q.v. ] for helping rebels who had fought at Sedgemoor with James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them . |
| 23 | Pinza started 5–1 joint favourite with Premonition , who had won at Epsom and York earlier in the season . |
| 24 | They had a conversation of sorts with the two inebriates who had laughed at Joe 's opening remarks to them . |
| 25 | In 1984 , when the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill was being debated in the House of Lords , Lord Scarman , who had spoken at second Reading , moved two amendments during the Committee stage . |
| 26 | It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud . |
| 27 | A lone grave , the resting-place of one who had died at sea , lay at a point of land under the shelter of a rugged knoll : the grassy mound was decked with a cross of white stones , and at either end an unhewn rock was placed to mark the spot as sacred ; and on the taller stone was a square patch whereon the remains of an inscription that bore a roughly-drawn cross and an anchor , and the fact J. M ‘ L. died at sea — all else defaced . |
| 28 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 29 | They bore the names of prisoners who had died at Whitely . |
| 30 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |