Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me . |
| 2 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 3 | At the far end of the room , marooned on a dais in splendid isolation , sat those fellows of the college who were in for lunch that day . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 5 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 6 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 7 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 8 | The only heroes he had much time for were Bravd and the Weasel , who were out of town at the moment , and Hrun the Barbarian , who was practically an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips . |
| 9 | All the pilots were different but they all had a common theme , giving people who were out of work something worthwhile to do with their time . |
| 10 | Thus at times one of the Whig connections might work together with a Tory connection in the service of the administration , and they would be opposed by a combination of Whigs and Tories who were out of office and who sought to mobilise the independent back-benchers to put pressure on the government . |
| 11 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 12 | Mrs Hardy , of Tower Hill , Chipperfield , was found crawling through undergrowth in the woods yesterday morning by two women who were out for a walk . |
| 13 | 30 June started early for those men of C Company who were out on patrol . |
| 14 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 15 | They were among thousands of supporters in colourful and fancy dress — ranging from leeks and nuns to the more traditional Welsh red and white — who were out on the town on the eve of today 's match between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfield . |
| 16 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 17 | Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas . |
| 18 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 19 | There is always a man from just down the road , or the basement flat , or the office , whose name Howard does n't quite catch , and who was up at Cambridge just after all the rest of them . |
| 20 | try to get that lad who was up at with a machine . |
| 21 | The boys lined up in the corridor by the glass office and looked in to see who was up against the rod . |
| 22 | Domkat Yah Bali , a Christian who was up till then considered to be the regime 's " number three " , had lost the Defence portfolio and the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and was removed from the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 23 | Only two little kids who was up in , well keeping watch on the outside , there were two in the house and two at the back , driving a bloody car at that age |
| 24 | Rocastle was the only player who was up by the halfway line when we broke away , all too frequently and any long punt by the defence fell to the feet of Blackburn players . |
| 25 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |
| 26 | Others present included , a great supporter of the Arts and many good causes ; , whose husband is Rector of the Imperial College ; , he is Chairman of London Weekend Television ; , who is a member of the Council of the College ; , who was over from Kenya ; , who had been one of the judges . |
| 27 | ‘ My spirits , too , ’ agreed the old lady , throwing a wry glance at Theda , who was over by the windows . |
| 28 | I waved to the toddling girl who was over by the window again , banging a fist on the pane and watching the rain drizzle down . |
| 29 | Approaching the door he said to [ name of another neighbourhood policeman ] , who was about to knack , |
| 30 | In late June 1919 Eliot went to Garsington , but cut short his visit to stay with Peters who was about to be demobbed from the US Navy . |