Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] who [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 2 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown slammed the ‘ arrogant complacency ’ of Ministers who did nothing for homeowners , the unemployed or small businesses . |
| 3 | Kenneth Jackson 's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace . |
| 4 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 5 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 6 | He swooped on Preminger who rebuked him for being drunk , raging , ‘ You ver drunk last night and you are drunk now . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’ |
| 8 | Wessels launched an immediate counter-attack when he entered in the day 's second over , mostly with pulls and cuts , and counted eight fours and a top-edged pull for six off Ambrose who removed him for 59 to a sharp low catch at point 35 minutes after lunch . |
| 9 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |