Example sentences of "who a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 2 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 3 | To Jonjo O'Neill , who a moment earlier had been plugging on towards a certain third place , this sign of weakness in Wayward Lad 's finishing effort offered remote but renewed hope : ‘ I suddenly saw he was tiring , ’ he reported later , ‘ and so did she . ’ |
| 4 | One such person who a number of us were worried about just did not answer letters or telephone calls for over a year . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 6 | It was , however , an encouraging week for Norman , golf 's fallen idol , who a month ago had surgery on a knee injury suffered when playing football many years ago . |
| 7 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 8 | Second was Ernest Obeng , who a year later in Rome was to finish second in the World Cup 100 metres behind Allan Wells . |
| 9 | There was a fight of some kind going on to my left ; all the people who a minute ago had been fleeing into the bush were just as suddenly pouring back . |
| 10 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 11 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 12 | Then Dotty Blundell , who a moment before had drooped under the weight of her leopard-skin coat , flung back her shoulders and lowering her chin gave a peek-a-boo smile . |
| 13 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 14 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 15 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 16 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 17 | People seeing ‘ Carry On ’ films found it all as natural as those who a generation earlier had greeted the squeal of bobby soxers for Frank Sinatra or , before that earlier the sight of Al Jolson in blackface . |
| 18 | SFA has some very important rules as to who a firm should treat as a customer in these circumstances . |
| 19 | In market making systems , for example , there are regular controversies about who is a genuine and who a fair weather market maker . |
| 20 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 21 | Players who a year ago would have cost between £20,000 and £70,000 will be on free transfers this summer but will still demand good wages . |
| 22 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 23 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 24 | But er there were two boys who a machine beside . |
| 25 | Oh it 's it 's quite common , everybody does it if you have a vic if you study Victorians anyone who a Victorian and they all they did all done out , chairs er table space at the front , they did drill in the playground they played with tops and hoops in the playground , all the children the m parents hired costumes from Fairy Godmothers Fairy Godmother 's done a roaring trade especially |
| 26 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 27 | Harry Kroto is a chemist at the University , who a few years ago , in collaboration with a colleague and a student , discovered something about interstellar space that has forced scientists to reconsider their views . |