Example sentences of "who was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated , glancing anxiously at Philip , who was on the other side of the table . |
| 2 | Woil , who was on the other side , stared at her in despair and shared misery before retreating into his shelter . |
| 3 | They were talking to Perks , the Porter , who was on the other side of the line . |
| 4 | Some years ago a presenter at a seminar on project management referred to the Taylor Woodrow logo and said he had often wondered who was on the other end of the rope . |
| 5 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |
| 6 | The late night , low level circuits made by the military jet over west Stockton and Eaglescliffe angered residents and Hartburn councillor Stephen Smailes , who was on the receiving end of their complaints . |
| 7 | On the plane she found herself sitting next to the Knitting correspondent of a women 's magazine who was on the same press jaunt . |
| 8 | Franz Beckenbauer , former West German captain who was on the losing side in 1966 , is willing to take part in anything planned — and Brazil 's Pele is also being lined up . |
| 9 | Jake Howard , who was on the Australian coaching staff for the World Cup , has joined Wanderers for next year and at the other end of Lansdowne Road the Landsdowne club have enrolled Graeme Taylor , formerly a Counties back and more lately involved with the All Blacks ‘ seconds ’ squad . |
| 10 | Ted Sturmthal , who was on the last flight , summed it all up ‘ I 'll do anything to keep the XB-70 in the air — except pay for it myself ! ’ |
| 11 | And er someone else who was on the large side , also stood up and they all giggled at him , and he said he 'd had enough of this fattist language . |
| 12 | As Dandelion ended , Acorn , who was on the windward side of the little group , suddenly started and sat back , with ears up and nostrils twitching . |
| 13 | A former editor of Izvestia , who was at the Central Committee plenum of 1964 which ‘ accepted ’ the resignation of his father-in-law on the grounds of age and health , Mr Adzhubey is perfectly placed to recall the ‘ stifling atmosphere ’ in the Politburo court at the time . |
| 14 | No , we did n't sack anybody who worked in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 15 | of our officers who work in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 16 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 17 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
| 18 | Anyone on the list who was at the infamous away games at Stoke where we got battered in 2 successive seasons ? |
| 19 | In particular they want to speak to anyone who saw a black man , aged about 24 , who was at the Social Services office in Calthorpe Street and was also seen later at Banbury and Oxford train stations . |
| 20 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 21 | He wanted someone of high calibre , with business and administrative skills , who was outside the traditional courtier mould yet compatible with the Old Guard already in situ . |
| 22 | However , Æthelweard , who was of the finest English stock , and may well have been the man of that name executed by Cnut in 1017 ( see above ) , dissembled by undertaking what he had no intention of performing , and the Chronicle records the ætheling 's eventual banishment in 1017 . |
| 23 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 24 | Thinking this exception might apply , I checked with your colleague Ian Law , who was of the same opinion . |
| 25 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 26 | While the three of them stood by the pump in the stableyard , waiting for their horses to be brought out , George nodded his head towards Gareth Davis , who was across the other side of the yard , well out of earshot . |
| 27 | What and who was behind the new Ali , the wily Washington lobbyist who had the ear of everyone from Strom Thurmond to Orrin Hatch ? |
| 28 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 29 | She had recognised that her father , too , was common , but that he was a good imitator : from the time he had taken up with her mother , who was from the middle class , he had aimed to act accordingly . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the mother of a nine-year-old boy who was from the same town and died in a ski-ing accident , is being cared for by a church group . |