Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Elton advised the NAPF members to circulate copies of the Fimbra guidance note to their scheme members who were considering a transfer out of the company scheme and added that Fimbra had requested them ‘ to refer any instances of misleading scare advertising , or any evidence of bad advice that results in loss to scheme members , to its Complaints Department ’ . |
| 2 | She beamed at two scruffy little girls who were pushing a doll 's pram , grotesquely shod in their mother 's high-heeled shoes . |
| 3 | I had a phone call last er yeah Tu Monday night from Warwick University who were organizing a conference at the Youth Hostel Association in York . |
| 4 | Yesterday there were angry scenes when a tenants ' group held a meeting with representatives of Aberconwy Borough Council who were organising a clean-up of the badly flooded area . |
| 5 | They had also established contact with 40 men under Major Chisholm who were organising a base for patrols from Memo , but contact had not yet been made with Australia , the powerful radio stations on the mainland 's north coast drowning out signals from Timor . |
| 6 | After the race Mrs Fagan was presented with the trophy , a set of three cut glass decanters , by Mrs Alan Munns , whose husband is managing director of Munns who were sponsoring a race at Ascot for the first time . |
| 7 | Though small in numbers , the ILP had four vociferous Members of Parliament who were assured a hearing in the House and in the country . |
| 8 | In order to obtain ‘ baseline rates ’ for colonic mucosa , a group of patients who were undergoing a haemorrhoidectomy ( all without evidence of colorectal tumour on barium enema and sigmoidoscopic examinations ) consented to undergo measurement of protein synthesis . |
| 9 | Interestingly , two of the carers in Glendinning 's study were single women who were sharing a household and some of the responsibilities of care-giving with an unmarried brother as well as their elderly parent . |
| 10 | It was impossible to get any sort of recent financial statement from the company , and it was equally impossible to track down the principal debtors , who were ducking a host of other creditors as well . |
| 11 | As a large black cloud covered the moon , a group of men jumped including two Red Cross orderlies who were carrying a stretcher over the top and ran towards them . |
| 12 | It gushed plasma at a small knot of Marines who were storming a trench crowded with troopers . |
| 13 | These people came in yesterday , he told me , who were judging a competition for the best window displays in the Kings Road . |
| 14 | On Jan. 2 police prevented clashes with around 2,000 ethnic Turks and Pomaks who were staging a counter-demonstration in Kurdzhali . |
| 15 | It turned out to be one of The Goodies , who were making a comedy programme for their series in the area . |
| 16 | I went and sat down with Lenny and Vin , who were making a kite . |
| 17 | National Guard government troops retook the television centre in Tbilisi on June 24 after a brief occupation by rebel forces ( numbering 100-300 ) who were attempting a coup in favour of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 18 | So most of the people who were having abortions were people who were having a child by some other man ? |
| 19 | Tribe , not knowing how to fly when the propeller stopped turning , glided heavily eastward and crash-landed in a field full of German infantry , who were having a meal before going up to join the attack . |
| 20 | They joined up with local environmentalists who were extending a pond at the Victoria Nursing Home , Barton Street . |
| 21 | The violence erupted after Eugene Terreblanche , leader of the AWB , and more than 1,000 of his uniformed supporters confronted police , who were surrounding a hall where de Klerk was to speak . |
| 22 | The rest of the time the students , who were paid a salary , were deployed to teach in schools throughout the country , with the back-up of distance learning materials and periodic supervisory visits from National Centre staff . |
| 23 | I admired my daughter-in-law so much the day I saw her stand a full five minutes waiting for her little boy who was watching a worm disappearing through a hole in the earth . |
| 24 | and I was very moved by the photograph and I ended up writing a poem to this little girl , and indeed one thing I can say , perhaps with some pride , is that Doctor Barnardos know about this poem , and somehow who was writing a history Barnardo children actually asked to use it in her book . |
| 25 | He did n't like the look of that rascal who was touching a taper to the base of the gun . |
| 26 | But the Poles had an outstanding side then — not only featuring Lubanski but Deyna , Lato , Gadocha , Gorgon and the goalkeeper , Jan Tomaszewski , who was to defy a barrage of attack in London . |
| 27 | He had been out working all day on a commission job for a fashionable hairdresser who was creating a branch in Los Angeles . |
| 28 | The Virgin , Ford relates , appeared to a young shepherd in the Alpilles who was chiselling a rock , and remained whilst he carved her portrait . |
| 29 | He did n't act much like a man who was expecting a favour , and if it were n't for Ana he certainly would n't get one . |
| 30 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |