Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum .
2 Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party .
3 Amongst those members who changed their portfolios was former Economics Minister Chen Li-an , who became the new Defence Minister .
4 After dissolving his Cabinet on Jan. 30 , 1990 , President Banda appointed a new one on Feb. 23 in which former Minister of Health Edward C. I. Bwanali took over Local Government from Mfunjo Mwakikunga , who became the new Health Minister .
5 One of the breed of working class Northern actors who led the British cinema revival in the early Sixties and equally , one of those who turned their backs on Hollywood for more satisfying , artistically if not financially , work in the theatre .
6 THE OFFICIAL who led the local authority response to the Lockerbie disaster , Neil McIntosh , now chief executive of Strathclyde regional council , is to be honoured by an American university .
7 LEN DARLING , one of only five survivors among the Australians who withstood the deadly Bodyline attack of 1932–33 , dies in Adelaide in June , after a short illness .
8 A teenager who admitted the new joy-riding offence of aggrevated vehicle taking has walked free from court at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire .
9 The infamous John Carlos who made the black power gesture on the Olympic rostrum in 1968 became a source of inspiration : ‘ I said ‘ yeah , I 'd like to be there . ’ ’
10 It was grief-stricken Abigail who made the final parting gesture .
11 Right , number eleven who got the famous gold course
12 But Labour Councillor David Drew , who proposed the origional banning motion , said it was a moral victory .
13 Steven Hall who proposed the national crèche scheme .
14 A Soviet Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs , Valeri Nikolaenko , who visited the Cuban capital Havana on Sept. 21-22 , stated that agreement had been reached on the practical aspects of a staged withdrawal of a 3,000-strong Soviet training brigade and on a " specific time frame " for talks on further withdrawals .
15 Those of us who visited the lovely market town of Guisborough know that the values of property there are very similar to those in my constituency of Harrow .
16 It was the highest ever vote for our party and the modest swing to us reflected great credit on the many people who helped the Liberal Democrat campaign in South West Surrey .
17 THE RAF officer who built the wooden vaulting horse used in a famous escape from a World War 2 German prison camp has died aged 86 .
18 Today , after ten years of commercial failure , most of the print-on-paper publishers who entered the educational software market , have withdrawn .
19 Both the focus and the composition of the group changed in 1982 on Faulkner 's promotion to the Criminal Department , being joined inter alia by Bill Bohan , a knowledgeable Assistant Under-Secretary who headed the Criminal Policy Department from 1979 until his retirement in 1989 , and the directors of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and the Oxford Centre for Criminological Research , Professor Anthony Bottoms and Dr Roger Hood .
20 Both Zbigniew Brzezinski , who headed the National Security Council under Jimmy Carter , and Robert McFarlane , who did the same job for Ronald Reagan , joined the Centre for Strategic and International Studies on leaving office .
21 Such was Roger de Clifford the Elder , who presided over the southern forests 1265–81 , and his grandson Robert de Clifford , ‘ one of the greatest barons of the age ’ who headed the northern Forest administration 1297–1308 .
22 Originally published under he title The Filibusters in 1947 , this edition has been enhanced by the addition of a new foreword by Lord Jellicoe , who commanded the Special Boat Service for most of its existence in the Mediterranean .
23 It is obvious that those doctors who practised the therapeutic community approach had doubts about the complete integration of psychiatric patients into general hospitals , which must perforce be organized and run in a radically different manner .
24 ‘ Certainly , we 've always had strays , ’ comments Luigi Boitani , the Roman zoologist who directed the wild dog study , ‘ but this time were facing something different .
25 Peter Hughes , who received the TNT-sponsored Transport Journalist of the Year Award from the Institute in 1992 , has been awarded a Doctorate from the Open University for his thesis ‘ A strategy for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from personal travel in Britain . ’
26 But the organiser of the event , who received the British Empire Medal in 1991 for his efforts , defended the planning of the race .
27 In addition , if you wish to install a new version of an already installed process model or deinstall a process model , then you must be the user who installed the current process model or the LIFESPAN manager .
28 Who opened the preserved Dart Valley Railway in 1969 ?
29 The men who spearheaded the British food marketing effort in Europe have been helping Northern Ireland 's food processors and manufacturers ' expansion plans .
30 Among those who joined the Foreign Office/Army Intelligence at Bletchley Park were Lorna Bottomley , Mary Humphrys , Lucienne Palmer and Janet Seligman .
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