Example sentences of "who was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On account of my father who was a Saudi-Arabian rain maker . ’ |
| 2 | Soon after Eva 's heart attack the General of the day , Arnold Brown , who was a warm friend of hers , was talking to a group of officers about his work . |
| 3 | Later it become known that Stewart would have preferred as fullback Bob Barrell , a hefty man from Stewart 's area , Wanganui , who was a famed goal-kicker . |
| 4 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 5 | He burst through the drinkers , but too late his swinging foot : a mighty kick that raised the man , who was a scrawny fellow , withered haunches , a good foot in the air . |
| 6 | Their love of skiing and the mountains sprung from their father who was a fanatical mountaineer , but sadly died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas when they were teenagers . |
| 7 | Bounderby claims to have learned to tell the time from studying its steeple clock ‘ under the direction of a drunken cripple , who was a convicted thief , and an incorrigible vagrant ’ , i.e. a typical denizen of the St Giles district , HT i 4 . |
| 8 | In the same year the paper gave considerable coverage to the tour of the Rev. Kah-gega-gah-bowh , an Ojibway chief , who was a Teetotal crusader . |
| 9 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 10 | The General Manager , Mr. Charles Furness , who was a keen exponent of electric traction ( he was also the Borough Electrical Engineer ) , resisted pressure to replace the Central Drive trams with buses , which were first introduced in 1922 . |
| 11 | As we steamed down the Sound of Mull one fine afternoon , my No. 1 , Dave Scadding , who was a keen fisherman , noticed a flock of gulls screaming on the water ahead . |
| 12 | On Charles Lyell 's side at first there was none of similar stature , though one might mention the great Goethe in Germany who was a keen amateur geologist and liked the gradual peaceful processes preached by the uniformitarians . |
| 13 | Like so many of us , he learnt from his parents , his mother to be precise , who was a keen gardener . |
| 14 | On 19 June , Austin Currie raised the question in Stormont of the allocation of a house in Caledon , outside Dungannon , to a nineteen-year-old unmarried Protestant woman , the secretary of a solicitor who was a Unionist parliamentary candidate . |
| 15 | The king 's son followed Mitsi , who was a small mouse with very long whiskers . |
| 16 | Steve agreed , and was rewarded with a versatile and creative player who was a useful asset to the club at a rather difficult time . |
| 17 | John Ellis , who was Under-Secretary of State to William , had one brother who was a Secretary to James and another who was a Catholic bishop . |
| 18 | Around about a bit later they er Charles the Second was er came down out of his oak tree and climbed on to the throne and round about that time you found the childhood of erm childhood of Robert Walpole who was a famous politician in well first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Protestant for years when Roman Catholics were proscribed , then some Victorian industrialist who was a religious crank turned it into a hostel for people off the street . |
| 20 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 21 | They decided that Victoria would accompany them to the funeral , but that Hilary , who was a delicate child , should not be exposed to the January chill . |
| 22 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 23 | Who was a second or third officer on the Lusitania . |
| 24 | Before he reigned he had , by Doña Sancha his wife the Infanta Doña Urraca , his eldest daughter , who was a right excellent lady , and after her he had the Infante Don Sancho , his eldest son and heir ; and then the Infanta Doña Elvira , whom after the death of the King her father , her brother King Don Alfonso married to the Count Don Garcia de Cabra . |
| 25 | ‘ My father , who was a professional cricketer , desperately wanted me to be a doctor . |
| 26 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 27 | I finally asked that same bishop , who was a personal friend , for baptism . |
| 28 | I also join him in paying tribute to Alick Buchanan-Smith who was a personal friend of mine , as he was of so many , and who was an outstanding parliamentarian and Minister , and to the courage of George Buckley . |
| 29 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 30 | My history teacher , who was a liberal , joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue . |