Example sentences of "who [vb past] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 2 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 3 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 4 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 5 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 6 | It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place . |
| 7 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 8 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 9 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 10 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |
| 11 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 12 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 13 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 14 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 15 | They each came in and looked expectantly at Gooseneck , who showed them to a table with great ceremony and handed them a newspaper . |
| 16 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 17 | It was to this woman , who watched them with a smile , that Travis now led her . |
| 18 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 19 | Some have expected to sleep with anyone they fancied who treated them to a night out — or , in the case of a man , expected bed for the night in return for dinner . |
| 20 | Builders were treated as craftsmen and learnt to work alongside this new generation of client , who treated them as a fount of all wisdom . |
| 21 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 22 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 23 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 24 | And broadcaster David Dimbleby , who munched them throughout the night during his gruelling TV election broadcast this year . |
| 25 | In fact the victims were mainly the families of senior military officers and the Ba'ath party officials , and the walkie-talkies were being used by the drivers who took them to the shelter . |
| 26 | She says they worked closely with the Hindu community in Cheltenham who introduced them to a teacher from Birmingham who taught them . |
| 27 | He sent them to a famous anthropologist at the university , who gave them to the library . |
| 28 | They took these from Father Christmas and gave them to the nurses , who gave them to the hospital children . |
| 29 | A month later my parents were met on the open plain outside Addis Ababa by Lord Herbert Hervey and a deputation of Abyssinian notables who escorted them to the Legation , at some distance to the east of the town , in an extensive compound at the foot of the Entoto hills . |
| 30 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |