Example sentences of "who [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recollections have been handed down by word of mouth , of spindle spinning and early spinners in wool and flax , who lived at Adamthwaite . |
| 2 | In a recent study performed by the authors , however , old people who lived at home were asked to record their habits each day ( times of waking , eating , visiting friends , sleeping , etc ) for a ‘ typical week ’ . |
| 3 | She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city . |
| 4 | By 1891 Thomas Patterson Gillespie , who lived at Cone House , was making ‘ blottings , printings , news , E.S . |
| 5 | Kitty in her late fifties , Kitty who lived at Court , Green , Nottingham . |
| 6 | A wonderful time for children , but not so good for thousands in cities , nor for the countrymen who lived at subsistence level , and never knew what it was to have a holiday . |
| 7 | Vera Loomis , the ninety-two-year-old who lived at number 92 and was known for some reason as Got All the Things There Then ? had offered plum wine or home-brewed lager and Susan Doyle , who was reported to watch News at Ten while her husband pleasured her , had suggested lemonade shandy . |
| 8 | Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70 , another two storey house was quite a character . |
| 9 | I went to Rose and Cyril Grabham , a lovely couple who lived at No 4 , Park Cottages . |
| 10 | Frankie had often spoken to one of the very black men who lived at Nanny 's house in Lansdowne Place . |
| 11 | The two women , who met at college , had excitedly planned their reunion in Durban before Elizabeth 's marriage next June . |
| 12 | Bouge De La was formed by a group of friends who met at drama school in Paris . |
| 13 | Nutty knew that Miss Bedwelty had a famous eventing niece called Biddy who rode at Badminton and was sometimes seen clearing vast hazards on television . |
| 14 | In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements . |
| 15 | Educated at St Peter 's School in York , Eton , and the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , Malcolm was a sturdy youth who excelled at football . |
| 16 | Charlie was a bustling , enthusiastic bundle of driving energy who played at inside-right for the Palace throughout the five seasons up to the end of fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 17 | Mr Shami Hoad , a heating engineer , who arrived at court with his wife Samantha , told Cheltenham magistrates that he 'd arrived at his home at Alma Place in Gloucester in July last year to find 2 strange men in his house . |
| 18 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 19 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 20 | Finally there was Mr Skipton 's wife ( mentioned above ) who talked at length about the strain of looking after her husband but is known to have refused most offers of help . |
| 21 | The institute has played a significant role in Kuwait 's mariculture development , as three of our graduates , Dr Sulaiman Al Matter , Dr Abdul Aziz Al Ameeri and Dr Khaled El Allah , now work at KISR plus Dr Albert Tacon who worked at KISR for a short time before being forced to flee Saddam Hussein . |
| 22 | Dexter found his brevity a refreshing contrast to the self-conscious talkativeness of most of the people who worked at TV London . |
| 23 | In other words , Laura 's idea of the working woman was one who worked at home , and her needs should be catered for so that she could look attractive in the environment in which she naturally flourished . |
| 24 | , Geoffrey Wingfield ( 1913–1971 ) , anatomist , physiologist , and endocrinologist , was born 4 June 1913 in Acton , London , the elder child and only son of Thomas Harris , scientist , from Oxfordshire , who worked at University College London and the ballistics department , Woolwich Arsenal , and his wife Winifred Irene Stiles of Buckinghamshire . |
| 25 | Mark , who worked at investment house Foreign & Colonial , evaluates all the ideas with the same attention to the bottom line he used when looking at applications to provide venture capital . |
| 26 | While Smyth might be right about the consequence of the Party being too heavily associated with the Church , he is wrong in reading backwards from that possible consequence to the motives of the men who debated at Presbytery . |
| 27 | The bodies of the young Britons , both 22 , who disappeared at Easter , were found outside Sydney . |
| 28 | ‘ It was in the late Seventies that we got guys like Saatchi , who looked at art calmly and coldly and treated it as an industry . |
| 29 | , William ( 1903–1971 ) , bookmaker , was born in Birmingham 16 July 1903 , the second son and fourth of the eleven children ( there were also a twin son and daughter who died at birth ) of William Hill , journeyman coach-painter , and his wife Lavinia Knight , the daughter of a farmer , who also kept an inn on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire . |
| 30 | They had one son , who died at birth . |