Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NSF 's earlier decision to abolish the death penalty had been confirmed by Iliescu in his New Year 's broadcast to the Romanian people on Jan. 1 , " in order to stress the profoundly popular and humanist character of the new regime " and in compliance with students ' proposals that " the two dictators [ i.e. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ] were the last persons who deserved this fate " . |
| 2 | But the Forest wardens in many cases held office during the king 's pleasure and for relatively short periods : many were important and busy persons who performed many of their Forest duties by deputies . |
| 3 | Although Rule 10b-5 adequately covered corporate officers who traded in the securities of their own companies — such officers owed fiduciary duties to the company if it was the issuer of securities in which they traded — the prohibition did not extend to persons who breached fiduciary duties to anyone other than the issuer of the securities traded in . |
| 4 | It was , as usual , not the person who lay dead but the shell in which the person had lived . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) It is for the person who owed any duty under subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) if he gave consent and the question arises whether he gave it within a reasonable time , to show that he did , ( b ) if he gave consent subject to any condition and the question arises whether the condition was a reasonable condition , to show that it was , ( c ) if he did not give consent and the question arises whether it was reasonable for him not to do so , to show that it was reasonable , and , if the question arises whether he served notice under that subsection within a reasonable time , to show that he did . |
| 6 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 7 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 8 | Interestingly she was later accepted by the very person who said this . |
| 9 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 10 | Until you find the person who sent that letter , I 'm never going to be completely safe . ’ |
| 11 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 12 | We want to trace the person who had this sort of fashion shoe on . |
| 13 | ‘ It is essential we catch the person who committed these serious crimes , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Finally , what , in retrospect , did the person who lived that life consider had happened during its course ? |
| 15 | E.G. James was a farmer and self-taught fix-it person who lived all his life in Mungo County , Virginia . |
| 16 | Madame Delon mentioned that the person who painted that view of the Porte des Cévennes , the one hanging in your salon , is a friend of yours ? ’ |
| 17 | I very much appreciate the honour of moving this motion , but I have one sadness — the fact that Alick Buchanan-Smith , a colleague and great personal friend of mine , a person who served this House , the Government and his constituency so well , is not with us today . |
| 18 | The name of the sales person who made each sale ; |
| 19 | There is evidence that following the start of treatment the lesions of primary or secondary syphilis are free of active treponemes within 48 hours , although it would be a brave person who took this to mean that intercourse was safe so soon after starting treatment . |
| 20 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 21 | You were not there , I was not there Saint Mark or the person who wrote this Gospel was not there Someone has recorded this for us looking back on it . |
| 22 | Is this the person who wrote those songs about the lonely heartache of a boy from New Jersey trying to be a man and live life right ? |
| 23 | Lloyd George was not a person who knew little about clergymen . |
| 24 | She was a mantri , a person who knew certain magic incantations , and was reputed to be able to cure sick animals . |
| 25 | The person who got all his numbers called out would shout " Bingo " . |
| 26 | He tried to kill you and that makes it look very much as though he 's the person who killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 27 | The content of the output produced is the result of the skill and effort of the person using the computer and the skill and effort of the person who wrote the computer program and/or the person who produced any database used . |
| 28 | Erm he was the person who invented those terms . |
| 29 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 30 | And I 'd want to know that the person who did that was going to be punished , and punished properly . |