Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 2 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 3 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 4 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 5 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 6 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 7 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 8 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 9 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 10 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 11 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 12 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 13 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 14 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 15 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 16 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 17 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 18 | It was Mellor who salvaged something from the disastrous 1990 Broadcasting Bill , which presaged the widely-ridiculed independent television franchise round . |
| 19 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 20 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 21 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 22 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 23 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 24 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 25 | Just as the race rekindled Classic hopes for Stoute , the flame was snuffed out for Newmarket trainer Mohammed Moubarak , who blamed himself for the dismal performance of 11–4 favourite Forest Tiger , who trailed in last after coming under pressure at half-way . |
| 26 | The custodian of this mood of growing calm was the new Prime Minister , James Callaghan , who imposed himself on the public consciousness as a new Baldwin , the apostle of peace in our time . |
| 27 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 28 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 29 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 30 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |