Example sentences of "who [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Elizabeth Williams , who lived at a time when universities were so enlightened that they would actually permit women to sit examinations ( but not , alas , be awarded a degree ) . |
| 2 | There were Feliks and Dorothy , still handsome at 75 and 70 , who met at a tea dance in 1946 and married 40 years later . |
| 3 | But the 19-year age gap is insignificant to the couple , who met at a nightclub earlier this year and who now share Margot 's west London home . |
| 4 | These questions , among others , exercised a group of educationists who met at a seminar on accountability sponsored by the SSRC and held at Cambridge ( England ) in 1977 . |
| 5 | Now based in Oxford they 're a truly international group , one English , one Swiss and one Norwegian , who met at a drama school in Paris . |
| 6 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 7 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 8 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 10 | Seventy-six Romanians who came to Britain for a Pontins holiday are asking for political asylum , they 're among two hundred of their countrymen who arrived at a Pontins camp near Bristol on Sunday for a weeks stay . |
| 11 | Julie , who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough , tough area of the city , shrugged her shoulders . |
| 12 | Esther Dyson , a pretty deaf woman aged 23 without any speech , who worked at a thread-mill in Ecclesfield and lived with her brother , who was also deaf without speech , was accused of the murder . |
| 13 | I heard the story of a lad , from the Bishop Auckland area like me , who worked at a farm in Teesdale for two shillings and sixpence a week . |
| 14 | The Thurlstone militia returns of 1806 name 129 men , of whom forty-one were weavers and twenty-one were clothiers , each of them humble men who worked at a loom in their own home . |
| 15 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 16 | One of the men who died at a processing plant in Hereford was fire fighter David Morris from Hereford . |
| 17 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 18 | In the 1840s most working men supported the Chartists , who aimed at a secret ballot and adult male suffrage . |
| 19 | Armed robbers who shot at a security guard in a busy street are still being hunted by police . |
| 20 | Armed robbers who shot at a security guard in a busy street are still being hunted by police . |
| 21 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 22 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 23 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |