Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this convinced Mrs Singh who left the classroom saying in an unusually dictatorial tone to the class teacher , ‘ I want you to sort him out and bring homework home . ’ |
| 2 | Perdita , having taken far too much , was now feeding the rest of the steak to the shaggy lurchers who ringed the table , but kept their distance . |
| 3 | Our mail gig party consisted of the Highlander who owned the dog , a woman with a very large bundle , a young man just home from his studies at a school in Germany , going to join a family party at Gairloch , and two men I would judge to be shepherds , possibly coming from Muir of Ord after selling their sheep . |
| 4 | George Walker , a tall , well-built centre-half , was a Scottish International with 29 caps who joined the Palace from Notts County early in the summer of 1936 for a fee of £500 . |
| 5 | Critics range from Charles Lee , a former president of the British Antique Dealers Association who described the move as a ‘ smack in the eye ’ and castigated Sotheby 's for charging 25% to their customers ( i.e. 10% from vendors and 15% from buyers ) . |
| 6 | A British soldier who joined the rebel Croatian army in Yugoslavia has been shot dead . |
| 7 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 8 | The original Norman Lamont is entombed in the Somerset city 's cathedral and was a soldier who survived the battle of Waterloo . |
| 9 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 10 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 11 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 12 | The top game in Division Three was at Willington where Spectrum entertained Consett Cougers who stole the game three seconds from time with the first basket of the game from Ian Lockey who hit an amazing three pointer from well outside the line . |
| 13 | For he was the Queen Mother 's steeplechaser who belly-flopped yards from the Grand National winning post , the horse who grabbed defeat from the very jaws of victory in such a way that even those with no interest whatsoever in the sport of racing still recall the sight of ‘ that horse who jumped the fence that was n't there ’ . |
| 14 | A folk and rock musician who played the guitar , he had recorded two albums , Dancing with the Devil and Family and Friends . |
| 15 | Dublin was the focal point of a Cambridge side who played the ball long , got it forward quickly and were condemned for their tactics . |
| 16 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 17 | It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score . |
| 18 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , in life as in architecture , does not want to reproduce the old , but his house is specifically contrasted with Grandcourt 's Diplow , ‘ a comparatively landless place which had come into the family from a rich lawyer on the female side who wore the perruque of the Restoration ’ . |
| 19 | Creaney , brought up on legends of the Lisbon Lions side who won the European Cup before he was born , is due to play his first full match in Europe when Celtic take on Cologne in the UEFA Cup first round first leg in Germany this week . |
| 20 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 21 | Winners of the society 's competitions so far this season are Mark Speed who scooped the Mason 's Ironstone Cup , while Carl Roberts took the Doug Lowndes Trophy . |
| 22 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 23 | On the last occasion , Northland had just six seats available and the Sinn Fein councillor was Barney McFadden who fought the Rural ward this time around . |
| 24 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 25 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 26 | The only note of discord came from fans who swamped the Middlesbrough switchboard complaining about the timing of the event . |
| 27 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 28 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 29 | The victory prompted incredible scenes of jubilation from the success-starved Everton fans who invaded the pitch on the final whistle . |
| 30 | Pollock , 18 , equalised with a 25-yard shot eight minutes after the break and celebrated with a somersault before being mobbed by fans who invaded the pitch . |