Example sentences of "who was [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Ormerod , who was on a working holiday in the Carpathians , is to be tried on charges of attempting to smuggle a Romanian citizen out of the country . |
| 2 | While producing a series of vocal recitals at CBC I had the pleasure of working with Mrs John Christie ( Audrey Mildmay ) , who was on a visit to Vancouver , and who had a remarkably fine singing voice . |
| 3 | The commissioner was Judge Ireland who was on a temporary transfer from Scotland . |
| 4 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |
| 5 | It was called Are We Nearly There ? and it was about a little boy who was on a journey with his father . |
| 6 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 7 | 6–9 Mrs Holliday , Bowmore , applied for the baptism of her daughter in the absence of her husband who was on a voyage to Africa and not expected to return for a year , and as they were " satisfied with Mrs Holliday 's knowledge as to the ordinance and the obligation " they agreed . |
| 8 | At Campbell Island he met John Biscoe [ q.v. ] , who was on a similar search for land in the Antarctic . |
| 9 | On Oct. 7 , a friendship and co-operation treaty was initialled by Dienstbier and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the presence of Havel and the German President , Richard von Weizsäcker , who was on a five-day state visit to Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Eila Karjalainen was a Finnish student who was on a hitch-hiking holiday in England . |
| 11 | The congregation was told that Paul , who was on a weekend visit home from Newcastle , where he was studying industrial and architectural design , was a young man mature beyond his years . |
| 12 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 13 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 14 | He married a girl who was with a firm who repaired old clothes . |
| 15 | I turned back to my plate , registering as I did so that Geoff Tulloch , who was with a group of his data-processing colleagues at a nearby table , had noticed our interest . |
| 16 | Help of a more immediately practical nature was given to Manan , a young pianist who was without a piano . |
| 17 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
| 18 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 19 | The woman in the shop that sold antique clothes was already busy with a customer who was after a white crepe de Chine 1920s dress that had gold sequins in thick crusty-looking roses all round the hips . |
| 20 | She detested Mrs Deacon , who was like a sterner , more forthright edition of Mrs Martin . |
| 21 | Sally , the wife who was like a second mother to the Inspector Wexford star 's four daughters , ca n't be with him in Australia to share this moment . |
| 22 | " You know you 're doing wrong , " said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning . |
| 23 | It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us . |
| 24 | He grinned and she felt her spirits rise as she looked with affection at this man who was like a brother to her . |
| 25 | ‘ We had a guy called Charlie Cooke who was like a ballerina . |
| 26 | they 're looking for an old boy eighteen to twenty five who was like a carpenter or a plumber who 's actually learnt a trade but he said the trouble is , he said |
| 27 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |
| 28 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 29 | Michael Hickey 's mother , Ann Whelan , who was among a large crowd of protesters outside the Home Office , said : ‘ Our message is simple that we are not going anywhere . |
| 30 | ‘ Life is going to be stark , elemental , brutal , filthy and miserable ’ for the survivors , admitted Mr Petersen , who was in a position to know . |