Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 2 | On Sunday , the Vesta Veterans ' Head , over the same course , includes St Andrew , who failed to enter for the big one on time . |
| 3 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 4 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 5 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 6 | By 1922 the team of brilliant men who had governed for the past six years could not but see themselves as irreplaceable . |
| 7 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 8 | Gabriella Gast , 47 , who had worked for the Federal Counterintelligence Agency ( Bundesnachrichtendienst — BND ) since 1973 and had access to the weekly intelligence report sent to Kohl , was arrested as announced on Oct. 2 . |
| 9 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 10 | Earl Patrick might well bring Edward himself here — who had paid for the improved defences . |
| 11 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 12 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 13 | In an earlier reply he suggested that in Northern Ireland , those who wanted to volunteer for the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve could volunteer for some other service . |