Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 2 | Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission |
| 3 | Anyone who has listened to the incessant calling of cicadas or the chirping of crickets will not be surprised to learn that insects are sensitive to sound . |
| 4 | In the context of stock exchange dealings he suggests that clauses that purport to allow a broker without warning to act as principal rather than agent , are " quite inconsistent with the role of broker and ineffective except against a principal who has assented to the changed relationship on this particular occasion " . |
| 5 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 6 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 7 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 8 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 9 | jobs to go around the people who do migrate to the urban skilled enough to jobs . |
| 10 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 11 | You are the kind of person who likes to get to the hands-on stage as soon as possible in the learning cycle . |
| 12 | It was n't Miss Wharton 's morning and Mr Capstick , who likes to come to the nine thirty Mass , had influenza . |
| 13 | In general , however , the hospitality and enthusiasm is overwhelming and anyone who does venture to the far north will want to return . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we 've got two people who admit going to the second floor that afternoon : Pascoe and Hunter-Blair . |
| 15 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 16 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 17 | Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson , the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right , as ‘ The Emperor Jones ’ , almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power . |
| 18 | A different tactical response by the US asbestos industry was to export its hazardous production to other non-regulated peripheral countries such as Mexico and the South American countries , following earlier examples of asbestos companies who had moved to the southern US states to avoid higher insurance costs in the northern states . |
| 19 | And in this way the aristocrat who had fallen to the low road returned — now sober , repentant , well-heeled — to the world in which he was born . |
| 20 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 21 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |
| 22 | Dominique Thomas , who had surrendered to the French authorities in July 1988 after being sought in connection with GAL [ see p. 36629 ] , and who had since then been detained in Gradignan ( Gironde ) , was released in September 1989 . |
| 23 | This opinion is contained in a letter of reply in Spanish to AI members who had written to the Mexican authorities in late 1991 expressing concern about the ‘ disappearance ’ of Jose Ramon . |
| 24 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 25 | Erich Honecker , the former East German leader who had fled to the Soviet Union in March [ see p. 38110 ] , sought refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow on Dec. 12 . |
| 26 | Within weeks of their meeting in November 1640 , the MPs of the Long Parliament launched a full-scale attack upon Laud and his Arminian innovations , and throughout the country those who had objected to the physical changes introduced during the previous decade began to destroy altars , rails , and stained glass . |
| 27 | At the end of it all little was left for the tradesmen who had resorted to the complicated machinery . |
| 28 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 29 | All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] . |
| 30 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |