Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 2 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 3 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 4 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 5 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 6 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 7 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 8 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |
| 9 | As the woman who dreamed up the slogan ‘ A Dog Is For Life , Not Just For Christmas ’ , she needs to have a high profile for campaigning , while still being able to turn her hand to clearing the odd blocked drain that might occur at the kennels . |
| 10 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 11 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 12 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 13 | Robert Townsend , the Avis man who wrote Up the organization , dismissed such schemes as gimmicks . |
| 14 | And the Great Panjandrum of this extraordinary enterprise — the man who dreamt up the task force , who drives its proceedings , and who keeps President Bill Clinton informed about its deliberations — is a student-radical-turned-management-consultant , Ira Magaziner . |
| 15 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |
| 16 | Are you the man who put up the money to buy it ? ’ |
| 17 | The stooge who set up the question was a local Free Presbyterian elder ! |
| 18 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 19 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 20 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 21 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 22 | The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own . |