Example sentences of "who [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards , his daughter married an Englishman called Sevier , a Director of the Siberian Bank and they had a son , Alfred Hynam Sevier , who became a medical practitioner to the Court . |
| 2 | Tranmere chief executive Frank Corfe , who led a powerful delegation to today 's meeting , said ‘ We are absolutely delighted . |
| 3 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 4 | Those who expected a predictable finale to this unpredictable match got far more than they anticipated . |
| 5 | As in hundreds of communities across Central Europe , the Jews and Germans who lent a cosmopolitan air to towns and villages in Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary were murdered or expelled . |
| 6 | What an irony that a king renowned for his piety , who prefaced some of his legislation by alluding to his duty to defend the church , and who sought a quick end to his wars in order to pursue the crusade , should preside over these changes ! |
| 7 | The Reds ' third-choice keeper , who made a successful return to senior action , is keeping his fingers crossed that Graeme Souness was impressed enough to select him against Middlesbrough this Saturday . |
| 8 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 9 | This principle was carried further by the House of Lords ' decision in Williams and Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 408 , which found that a wife who made a financial contribution to the purchase of a house acquires more than an interest in the proceeds of sale : she acquires an interest in the land itself , which can take effect as an overriding interest , in the case of registered land , under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ( g ) . |
| 10 | Brian Wood was the strong , solid , ever-dependable central defender who made a tremendous contribution to Palace 's promotion to Division Two under Dick Graham in 1963–64 , but who then had the misfortune to suffer a badly broken leg in a third round FA Cup-tie in January 1965 , from which he never fully recovered while with us . |
| 11 | SEOUL ( AP ) — The Rev Moon Ik Hwan , 71 , who made an unauthorised trip to North Korea in March to discuss reunification , was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding an enemy power . |
| 12 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
| 13 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 14 | Occasionally the proprietors of some of the quality houses would comment on the successful inclusion of travel films in the programme as it was thought that this would impress the casual respectable trade but far more common was the exhibitor who reported a hostile response to short films dealing with ‘ industrial ’ subjects . |
| 15 | In Cornwall almost all were Bretons , who bore a close affinity to the indigenous population , speaking a related tongue , and as yet imperfectly assimilated into the kingdom of France : ‘ ther use many Britons with smaul shippes to resorte to Padestowe with commodities of their countery and to by fische , ’ Leland observed , adding that the port was also full of Irishmen , Most , however , must have come to work , especially if native labour was in short supply in the parts where they were most numerous . |
| 16 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 17 | But its success , as always , owed much to the presence right forward of Mayne , who received a third bar to his DSO . |
| 18 | Right-wing opposition members walked out of the Congress on Oct. 22 during a speech by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , who paid an official visit to Chile on Oct. 19-22 . |
| 19 | Khan was a Muslim nobleman from the Deccan who paid an extended visit to Delhi from 1737 to 1741 as part of the entourage of Safdarjung 's great rival : Asaf Jah , the first Nizam of Hyderabad . |
| 20 | Such a doctrine would be formally expressed late in the fifteenth century by Philippe de Commynes who displayed an unheroic attitude to war and a marked preference for diplomacy . |
| 21 | Daring data raider dependent on hacking fix Gillian Harris charts the decline of a popular boy who enjoyed a high-tech challenge to a reclusive man obsessed with computers |
| 22 | U-TAPAO , Thailand — Hostages held by two students who hijacked a Burmese plane to Thailand were allowed to leave the plane one-by-one early this morning after an eight-hour drama , a Thai military official said . |
| 23 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 24 | Foreman , 44 , who lost a unanimous decision to Morrison , 20 years his junior , said immediately after the fight for the WBO heavyweight title , that he would probably retire . |
| 25 | Joyce dismissed Baldwin and Archbishop Lang as a pair of ‘ hardened schemers ’ , and taunted those who professed a religious objection to the King 's marriage . |
| 26 | To the French he was a great innovator , an artist who brought a startling lightness to the execution of his pictures , and with it introduced a fresh breeze of English naturalism into French landscape painting . |
| 27 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 28 | He accepts the widely held view that the development of mass-production industry produced a sharp deterioration in the conditions of manual work and led to the emergence of a type of worker who combined a generalised hostility to the prevailing society with a primary preoccupation with militant economic action ; but he suggests that , as technology continues to develop , the increased use of full automation will eliminate many of the deepest sources of resentment about work , and , in so doing , encourage normative integration within the existing social structure of the enterprise . |
| 29 | From the later seventh century B.C. the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy but it was the Etruscans who introduced a high culture to the central area of the peninsular . |
| 30 | SOON after leaving hospital following an urgent operation for cancer of the stomach I read about the ordeal of Dr Nigel Cox who gave a lethal injection to a suffering patient . |