Example sentences of "who was [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 2 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 3 | Waiting in the wings is a book by him about Ursula , entitled Style , which , according to Graham Greene , who was sent the manuscript , could be edited for publication . |
| 4 | Jeffrey Archer , who was discussing the size of his tax bill with the Features Editor of Woman 's Own , momentarily lost his thread ; who was she ? |
| 5 | After this brief introduction the head , who was chairing the meeting , asked staff for comments and questions . |
| 6 | By stumps on the second day Australia were 36 for 1 ( Taylor 18 , Boon 11 ) , and on Day 3 the pair took their stand to 221 , only 15 short of Australia 's best against India , by Sid Barnes and Don Bradman ( who was watching the play from the committee-room ) in 1947–48 . |
| 7 | ‘ If we do n't do something extremely soon , ’ said Caspar , who was watching the giants furtively , ‘ they 'll be heating up the squares any minute . ’ |
| 8 | Willie nodded shyly and went after Sammy who was eyeing the flowers in someone 's window box . |
| 9 | John Hutt , Governor of Western Australia , was thrilled that it was to be an Englishman who was to dispel the mists of ornithological obscurity from the continent . |
| 10 | The novelty of a golf course being built at Henley was interesting material to the proprietor of the Henley Standard , a certain 30-year-old Charles Luker who was to join the Club in about 1909–10 , and eventually become both its Captain and President . |
| 11 | As the new parliamentary session began on April 23 the leading parties negotiated over who was to fill the posts of president of the Senate and leader of the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 12 | By this time the bell would be ringing insistently , because the Met Waaf at Group who was collecting the observations would have her finger on it , and sometimes she would type out a terse little message or two , such as , ‘ Wake up , Bourn ! ’ or ‘ There 's a war on , you know ! ’ |
| 13 | ( 11 December 1780 ) One of Mozart 's worries was the castrato who was to sing the part of Idamante : |
| 14 | He replaced Absamat Masaliyev , who was leaving the post apparently because of differences with Kirghizia 's President Askar Akayev . |
| 15 | The corollary to that sad case actually was when after we 'd moved them we got another phone call six months lad er later from this very lady who was leaving the house and moving out . |
| 16 | The President nominated a Vice-President , who was to succeed the President should the latter be unable to complete a five-year term of office . |
| 17 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Mantell said that Paul Taylor , 27 , who was nearing the end of a three-and-a-half-year term for theft and assault at the time of the riot in April , 1990 , had taken part in some of the worst violence . |
| 19 | Only one major adjustment was needed , to replace the captain , Tom Parker , who was nearing the end of his playing days . |
| 20 | Kadi Samawna ( Seyh Bedreddin ) and specifies four men who , he says , led the criticism of Molla Fenari : Molla Burhan al-Din Haydar Herewi ( Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi ) , the mufti in Edirne " , who was to give the fetva sanctioning Seyh Bedreddin 's execution ; Molla Yegan ; Kutb al-Din Izniki-zade Baha " al-Din " Umar Celebi ( Bahaeddin Omer ) ; and the vezir Hajji " Iwad Pasha ( Haci Ivaz Pasa ) . |
| 21 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 22 | Why not just ask him ? she wondered as she stepped over the outstretched leg of Polly Inferno , aka Amanda Stern from Lanarkshire , who was using the corridor space for some warmup exercises and somehow , at the same time , studying a book . |
| 23 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 24 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 25 | If the cradle had been lowered , it would eventually have turned over , throwing out rigger Andy Bowman , who was controlling the stunt from inside it . |
| 26 | An interesting donation of £10 to the building of the school was from George Hudson the railway king , who was constructing the Hull to Bridlington line at the time . |
| 27 | He studied Sammy who was chewing the toe of one of his large stuffed boots . |
| 28 | The original promise was to allow enough information to be placed on record for the public to know who was breaking the law , and when , so prosecutions could be brought if necessary . |
| 29 | Mr Waddington , who was addressing the Lancashire business school , said that prisoners serving short sentences — defined by Lord Carlisle as under four years — should be granted parole automatically after serving half their sentences . |
| 30 | Glassford had declared his intention of supporting Lord Dundas 's interest in the election , but when he was visited by Alexander Bruce of Kennet , who was managing the election for Lord Dundas , ‘ we really found all not so right ’ . |