Example sentences of "who [vb past] served [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 2 | The councillors were drawn heavily from people who had served on the previous local authorities : and most of the public remained ignorant and apathetic towards local government ( Rhodes 1972:420 — 1 ) . |
| 3 | Given the ineffectiveness of the police and indecisive action by the Army , Iliescu called for the establishment of a specially-trained national guard , at the same time banning the Committee for the Democratization of the Army , a group of young , reform-minded officers who wanted their leaders who had served under the previous Ceausescu regime ousted [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 4 | The latest addition to our English-speaking group was a Rhodesian who had served in the Rhodesian Light Infantry in the war of Independence and who told endless stories of shooting black terrorists , or ‘ floppies ’ , in cross border raids into Zambia . |
| 5 | A Matagalpa prison official claimed that the US government arranged for officials who had served in the Korean and Vietnam wars to go to Nicaragua to teach the National Guard methods of torture . |
| 6 | Last year the rebuilt Memorial to the Fallen was unveiled in the centre of the town and on it , as well as the names who had served in the military were those of the 11 whose lives were lost . |
| 7 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 8 | By 1916 Kisling , who had served in the French Foreign Legion , was discharged wounded and working at his studio , No. 3 Rue Joseph Bara , and Modigliani often worked there with him . |