Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It was then examined for commercial potential by both ICI ( who eventually marketed it under the name Terylene ) and DuPont ( who called it Dacron ) .
2 Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic .
3 I mentioned to [ the neighbourhood policeman ] what [ the girl ] had said , who obviously associated them with the police who arrested her father .
4 Sir , May I express through your columns Sends a Cow 's gratitude to the many people in our beleaguered industry who generously supported us at the Royal Show this year .
5 His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics .
6 One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior .
7 Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears .
8 This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums .
9 Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries .
10 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
11 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
12 But Davis , now with 65 tournament wins worldwide to his credit , has enormous respect for Doherty , who also beat him in the quarter-finals of October 's Rothmans Grand Prix .
13 We were greeted by an entourage from the Dyfed Wildlife Trust led by their Director , David Saunders , who instantly led us to the boat .
14 After the Conquest the village and manor was given by William I to the lord of Holderness who later bestowed it on the newly founded Thornton Abbey , in Lincolnshire .
15 That confrontation was none of Sharpe 's business ; his concern was with the two horsemen who now faced him in the wood.They glanced past Sharpe , judging how best to rejoin their comrades , though it was clear they wanted Sharpe 's life first .
16 This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications .
17 He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door .
18 Massenga gestured to the other six men who immediately followed him into the prison compound , each carrying a Mini-Uzi .
19 While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake .
20 Then Breeze ran forwards and hugged Susan , who presently drew her into the hall .
21 Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea .
22 Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town .
23 Then , on April 8th , while on patrol the ‘ Lieutenant Mathematician ’ captured two German deserters , who conveniently warned them of the coming attack .
24 Some of those who actually made it to the polling stations could not disguise their disappointment .
25 Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way .
26 He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet .
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