Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the one who has reacted to success by becoming obsessive about peace and quiet , about making time to read books and see friends . |
| 2 | Maguire , who has rocketed to stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 3 | Among the other pro 's on the move are Tim Jenkins , who has left Castle Eden to take over from Fred Thorpe at Stressholme , the Darlington municipal course , and Steve McKenna , who has returned to Tynemouth after spending a year in France . |
| 4 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 5 | It was up to Moscow to start checking among the émigrés and escapees who 'd gone to Paris after the war ended . |
| 6 | It transpired the reason why I was put on the works was because there was another woman on the works with the same surname who 'd gone to Holloway for her appeal and they thought she 'd come back and had got us mixed up . |
| 7 | As it was cruel to Eileen , who 'd bled to death after the birth of her tiny baby . |
| 8 | Minor symptoms accompanying seroconversion , such as fever , tiredness , pain accompanying swallowing , headaches , and nightsweats , were not reported significantly more often by the drug users who seroconverted compared to controls for HIV . |
| 9 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 10 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 11 | She wanted me to phone a number in Zagreb to find out if her husband , who had gone to Yugoslavia for an operation on his liver just before the war , was alive or dead . |
| 12 | On 23 November Leopold tried another tack , using his knowledge of his son 's love for Aloysia Weber , who had gone to Munich with the court : |
| 13 | They were the young Lord Dunglass , who had gone to Munich with Chamberlain as his parliamentary private secretary in 1938 , Chips Channon , an amiable but half-witted American who was Rab Butler 's PPS , Butler himself — a friend and admirer of Chamberlain who worked in the Foreign Office under Halifax — and a fourth as yet unnamed . |
| 14 | The DIA was also anxious to get its hands on Syrian George , who had gone to Switzerland with polar Cap to sit on the wiretaps . |
| 15 | After his wife 's death he married a Miss Drayton who had gone to Jamaica as a single woman missionary teacher . |
| 16 | The idea was developed in discussions with another manufacturer of lace-making machinery who had moved to Chard in the late 1830s , William Samuel Henson ( 1812–1888 ) , and was inspired by the aeronautical writings and experiments of Sir George Cayley [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | The jockey , who had flown to Australia for a series of big races , plans to appeal today . |
| 18 | Ten years younger than his wife , he was the youngest son of the Revd George Fyler Townesend and grandson of the Revd George Townsend [ sic ] [ q.v. ] , a redoubtable cleric who had travelled to Italy in 1850 to try to convert the pope . |
| 19 | In France Mortimer became Isabella 's lover , and the two of them gained the support of other English lords who had travelled to France on diplomatic business and had then defected . |
| 20 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 21 | A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels . |
| 22 | From AD 235 to 285 the Empire was ruled by a succession of men , mostly of undistinguished provincial background , who had risen to power through the control of armies . |
| 23 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 24 | One student , who had transferred to physics from medicine , explained the difference between chemistry and physics : |
| 25 | H. W. Florey ( later Lord Florey , P.R.S. ) ( 1898–1968 ) was the Australian born son of an Oxfordshire shoemaker who had emigrated to Adelaide in 1885 . |
| 26 | John Bartram lost his parents while still young and lived with his grandparents who had emigrated to America with William Penn in 1682 . |
| 27 | The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . |
| 28 | In 1828 he became the partner of his friend and younger rival , James Muspratt [ q.v. ] , who had emigrated to Lancashire in 1822 , in building a Leblanc-process soda works on the St Helens canal . |
| 29 | It was the daughter of a friend of his who had emigrated to Australia in 1958 . |
| 30 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |