Example sentences of "who [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday .
2 Police are hunting thieves who used a stolen car to ram a food store in Buddle Road , Newcastle .
3 Hitman Paul Buxton , 42 , who used a rolling pin to bludgeon father-of-three Tony Hendley to death , was also jailed for life .
4 It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate .
5 AC Milan , who suffered a rare off-day to drop only their third point of the season , took the lead in the 33rd minute with a shot from Italian midfielder Demetrio Albertini .
6 Junior Welsh Office minister , Nicholas Bennett , lost his Pembroke seat to Labour 's Nick Ainger , who overturned a 5,700 majority to scrape in by 755 .
7 But the visitors were unable to take advantage of the strong tailwind and it was Alton who scored a vital goal to lead 1–0 at half-time .
8 The circular model was , in turn , challenged by Dance ( 1967 ) , who constructed a helical model to demonstrate that the communication process , by affecting the receiver , moves forward and further affects the communication which follows .
9 It involved another Down 's baby , a girl called Alexandra , who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction .
10 Suddenly you know that this is the man who brought a new horror to rock .
11 It stabilised demand by income transfers to those who had a high propensity to consume .
12 We never found anyone who had a bad word to say against Tony . ’
13 Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so .
14 A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson .
15 As a whole the season had not brought a successful fishing , which , sad to relate , would condemn to bachelorhood for another year many Lewismen who waited a successful season to enable them to begin life in partnership with a fisher lass .
16 Grand Lodge are appalled by the often-used argument that modern freemasonry was founded by middle-class gentlemen who wanted a secret society to study alchemy and the occult .
17 Some of these new ‘ leasows ’ were added to existing farms or smallholdings , but elsewhere in the parish entirely new units were created ; then from the reign of Elizabeth onwards poor families who wanted a little land to go with their cottages encroached further into the remaining woods and wastes .
18 A BRAVE schoolboy who overcame a devastating illness to return to school and pass his exams is to receive a prestigious Champion Children Award .
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