Example sentences of "who [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 2 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 11 | Another copy was sent to a Belgian huissier who delivered it to the Belgian respondent 20 days after the date of the judgment . |
| 12 | By the end of September it had reached a news agency reporter in Manchester , who offered it to the Daily Post , an ailing middle-market Fleet Street tabloid , for £15,000 . |
| 13 | Thomas Baskerville , who saw it in the 1680s , called it ‘ Paradise Restored , for here you find large streets , fair built houses , fine women , and many coaches rattling about , and their shops full of merchantable goods ’ . |
| 14 | Its whereabouts remained unknown until it was consigned at auction by a private collector in Spring 1990 , and bought by collectors who gave it to the Metropolitan . |
| 15 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 16 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 17 | Browning , who revived it in the late nineteenth century , thought it showed Smart rising from sanity to transfiguration , or , as Rossetti put it , from Earth to Heaven . |
| 18 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 19 | In 1925 the Reid brothers , William 's sons , sold the hotel to a British company , and in 1937 it was sold to the Blandy family who closed it during the Second World War and then modernized it before it re-Opened . |
| 20 | He attempted to dribble a Stephen Brown back-pass from out of his goal area but the ball broke for Ferris who chipped it to the far post where the lurking McBride made it four with a diving header . |
| 21 | If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place . |