Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility . |
| 2 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 3 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 4 | Ronald Taylor , who had travelled from Winsford to his daughter 's house at Middlewich Road , Rudheath , said he was affected by the smell . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 6 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 7 | This group included the veteran politician Mbiyu Koinange , who had participated in missions to the British Colonial Secretary in the early 1950s , and Dr Njoroge Mungai , then a minister in the Kenyatta government . |
| 8 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 9 | On March 6 , in a GPC debate broadcast by Libyan television , Kadhafi heard from a delegate who claimed that Libya faced a great problem because of the large number of people who had switched from production to retailing , alleging that prices had risen four- or five-fold " and everyone is complaining " . |
| 10 | Jess , who had come in response to the message brought by Midnight from Miss Jarman , stood in the doorway appalled . |
| 11 | If it is withdrawn , then the advertiser is in breach of contract with any bidder who had come in response to the advertisement . |
| 12 | He retained many child qualities of his own , including a liking for an excellent roll downhill , witnessed by one of his friends , a Mr Langton , who had walked with Johnson to the top of a very steep height . |
| 13 | Miguel Trovoada , an independent opposition leader who had returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 [ see p. 37674 ] , was elected President on March 3 , 1991 . |
| 14 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |