Example sentences of "who [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 2 | His twenty-three year old son who succeeded him , Edward II , chose not to continue the challenge and returned to London and marry Isabella , the daughter of King Philip IV of France . |
| 3 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |
| 5 | John , Lord Carteret [ later Earl of Granville ] , who succeeded him , was under no illusions about France , which he identified as ‘ the enemy always aiming at our destruction ’ ; periods of peace with her he considered ‘ only an intermission of hostility ’ . |
| 6 | James Callaghan , who succeeded him as prime minister , was brought up a Baptist . |
| 7 | Both the Duke of Somerset , the King 's uncle , who became Protector , and the Duke of Northumberland , who succeeded him , were supporters of religious reform , which Cranmer could now advance . |
| 8 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |
| 9 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 10 | It would not , however , have been possible without the support of McKenna and the Ministers who succeeded him . |
| 11 | Edgar and two brothers who succeeded him , Alexander and David , achieved something quite unusual : all three died peacefully . |
| 12 | Austen Chamberlain , who succeeded him , had little skill in party leadership . |
| 13 | This was the beginning of a family association with the School which was to last until 1942 , when his son , who succeeded him in 1898 , retired . |
| 14 | Although Stephen 's older son , who succeeded him , was crowned as the first Serbian king by a representative of Pope Honorius III in 1217 , the allegiance of the Serbs to the Eastern Church was not affected . |
| 15 | He gave land to Chad at Barrow in Lindsey for the building of a monastery ( HE IV , 3 ) , and when Chad died Wynfrith , who succeeded him as bishop , was evidently abbot of Barrow ( HE IV , 6 ) . |
| 16 | In the early 1640s Best compiled an account of his farming methods and other country matters , such as ‘ the fashions att our Country weddings ’ , for the benefit of his son , John ( 1620–69 ) , who succeeded him as lord of the manor . |
| 17 | He was survived by his wife Anne , daughter and heir of Richard Comport , of Eltham , and a son Comport ( born 1676 ) , who succeeded him in the baronetcy . |
| 18 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 19 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 20 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |
| 21 | His son Rolf , who disowned him after failing to extract any signs of remorse from him , visited him in 1977 . |
| 22 | Swinton , who sold him to Widnes for only £7,500 in January last year , would like him back . |
| 23 | In the early pages of the Old Testament , Joseph was cruelly treated by his brothers , who sold him into slavery . |
| 24 | The shopkeeper pays tax on his or her sales of all taxable goods , minus the tax paid by those who sold him or her the goods wholesale , and so the chain goes back to the producer . |
| 25 | Full-back Irwin left on a free transfer to Oldham — who sold him on to Manchester United for £750,000 . |
| 26 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 27 | However , it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods , later acquires the title to them . |
| 28 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 29 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 30 | Ramos , a Protestant , was criticized on Feb. 18 by the influential ( Catholic ) Archbishop of Manila , Cardinal Jaime Sin , who attacked him as a former Marcos stooge and expressed his preference for Mitra , thus denting Ramos ' dwindling support within the LDP . |