Example sentences of "who [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now formed a highly effective partnership with the Duke of Newcastle , a superb party manager who as First Lord of the Treasury was nominally head of the government . |
| 2 | This delighted Mr Winston Churchill , who as First Lord of the Admiralty was anxious to secure the Royal Navy 's fuel supplies for the war which seemed imminent . |
| 3 | In many ways , their crazy actions are analogous to the hysteria of young girl pop fans , who on first sight seem to be totally out of control , but can clearly be shown to be engaging in an intentional , conscious and structured activity . |
| 4 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 5 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 6 | It takes a lot of patience to be friendly towards people who at first seem hostile and resentful . |
| 7 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 8 | The teds of the fifties had been replaced by the mods , who at first had been a very exclusive , almost secret , underground working class movement . |
| 9 | The first parish priest was Father Kevin Daley , who at first lived at the Cathedral House until a house was bought on Sundorne Avenue . |
| 10 | Flames swept through the wooden building and the boys , who at first tried to fight the blaze , fled in terror as it spread . |
| 11 | Tajan , who at first denied anything was wring at all , said in November he had been obliged to raise FFr15 million to pay the sellers of the Daum and Galle . |
| 12 | The young , intelligent people feel a great sense of betrayal , even those who at first believed in all this . |
| 13 | Churchill , who at first thought it was the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster which was the proposition and for which he would happily have settled , accepted the greater post with tears in his eyes and an expression of grateful loyalty . |
| 14 | Who at first she thought was not Jim . |
| 15 | The influential Rafael Rodriguez ( who at first refused government positions , but gave advice on economic matters ) believed that Cuba could not rely on the Western capitalist countries ( accustomed to regarding Cuba as their sugar-bowl ) for the assistance necessary to develop an industrial economy . |
| 16 | They called on the minister in Laurencekirk , who at first refused to respond to the announcement of their arrival , until Boswell sent in his name . |
| 17 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 18 | He was discovered by his father , who at first did n't realise he was looking at his own son . |