Example sentences of "who [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who were they at that stage ? ’ |
| 2 | This applied both to parents of young children who were themselves in emotional or material crises , and to parents in conflict with their older children about their behaviour . |
| 3 | The risk factors were the parenting provided by mothers who were themselves in care as children ( 23 case , 21 comparison ) , mother who were depressed when their children were 2 years old ( 48 case , 27 comparison ) and mothers whose children failed to grow in spite of the absence of any organic disorder ( 23 case and 23 comparison ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Who were you with at the Lyric ? |
| 5 | ‘ Who were you with before ? ’ |
| 6 | You had your , who we who , who were you with ? |
| 7 | Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish ? |
| 8 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 9 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 10 | He appointed Akoli Daouel , who was himself of Tuareg origin , as a Minister with Special Portfolio to deal with the Tuareg issue . |
| 11 | Camille Chamoun 's power was ultimately founded upon his Nimr ( Tigers ) militia , commanded by his son Dany , who was himself to be a declared candidate for the presidency of Lebanon in the aborted 1988 elections . |
| 12 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 13 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 14 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 15 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 16 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 17 | The famous example of a prominent scientist and Christian who was something like a fundamentalist is Philip Gosse . |
| 18 | It was the reclusive Mr Goodson from the ground-floor flat , who was something in local government , though nobody knew quite what , and who was never , ever seen at the weekend . |
| 19 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 20 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 21 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |
| 22 | And now , here she was , wherever here was , with a woman , short and comfortable , who possessed a kind face , and a man who was none of these things , judging by the coolly impersonal way in which he spoke to her . |
| 23 | ‘ Who was he with you mean ! ’ |
| 24 | OK , so who was he in his past life ? |
| 25 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |
| 26 | From their lowly status they were still able to perceive who was who in the Rowdies hierarchy and which subunits were worth making a try for . |
| 27 | But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense , ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina . |
| 28 | Who was she with ? |
| 29 | Who was it for ? |
| 30 | Who was it for , you ? |