Example sentences of "officer who [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday .
2 It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’
3 The first interrogator was not the officer who had looked in the day before but a wizened little old man who seemed half afraid of me .
4 The success of the appeal would therefore have been alarming news for any officer who had tampered with the original notes of interview in any other case .
5 An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " .
6 Oliver L.J. , speaking of the plaintiff 's officer who had dealt with the matter , said , at p. 1200 :
7 On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army .
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