Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when I worked at Ollerton colliery in the constituency of the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) that the management had to use haulage bogeys to take fresh water to the miners , who were drinking it faster than it could be ferried to them . |
| 2 | And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety . |
| 3 | By the time Marx wrote Formen he had not yet read Maine and Phear , who were to influence him later , but he had read descriptive accounts of Indian and Indonesian village life and history , especially in Sir Thomas Raffles , History of Java [ 1817 ] , M. Wilks , Historical Sketches of the South of India [ 1810–17 ] , and G. Campbell , Modern India [ 1852 ] , all of which are quoted in Capital . |
| 4 | " Habib Olahi thought part of the blame lay with Iran 's allies — particulary the Americans and the British , who were giving him differing advice . |
| 5 | ‘ Who was feeding you all this information in Germany ? ’ asked the Exec Director . |
| 6 | The mullah , who was finding it difficult to stay awake throughout his devotions , was led by the Prophet to an encounter with a goat herd who had noticed his flock becoming very frisky after grazing on the berries of a certain shrub . |