Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 2 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 3 | The peoples who survived in the northwest area gained greatly from the mixture of arts and race but retained their individuality also until the tide turned once more and the northwestern island increased its influence eventually over the whole of Spain . |
| 4 | He was pictured in the Sun kissing his girlfriend Karen Levy on the same day that the club held a third anniversary memorial service for 95 fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 5 | FORTY fans who got off the train at Peterborough and tried to board a ferry at |
| 6 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 7 | Of the 28 per cent of the electorate who voted in the referendum , 53 per cent supported the ban . |
| 8 | Only , it was n't Matey who walked into the kitchen as McAllister began her blackleading , but Dr Neil , yawning and fastening the buttons of a rather natty grey coat which she had never seen before . |
| 9 | Darlington ladies held Boston well away from home and on the two rinks who played at the Morrison Centre . |
| 10 | Croom-Johnson J. plainly thought that he is ; one of the reasons advanced for accepting the contentions of the appellant was that , if the law were otherwise , the ‘ well meaning ’ defendant who went to the aid of the police and accidentally obstructed them would be guilty of an offence . |
| 11 | We tested the Volvo 460 on two readers who succeeded in the bid to get away . |
| 12 | We are most grateful to those readers who participated in the survey . |
| 13 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 14 | prebble quotes the Chevalier de Johnstone who fought with the Glengarrys : ‘ What a spectacle of horror ! |
| 15 | On Aug. 26 Edward Lee Howard , a former US Central Investigations Agency ( CIA ) agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 , was refused permission to settle in Sweden on the grounds that he was a security risk . |
| 16 | Every mother 's son personally knew his friendly local CIA agent who lived round the block . |
| 17 | One was from a retired ship 's captain , now living at Fowey in Cornwall , giving news of his house and garden ; the others were impersonal , acknowledgments of subscriptions to various charities , and some business letters from the estate agent who dealt with the letting of the two other flats . |
| 18 | Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ? |
| 19 | Following some heroics from Bateman , France levelled through Olivier Camus who drove in the equaliser in the 66th minute . |
| 20 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 21 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 22 | Her mother 's friends , Lizzie Braithwaite and Maria Colclough and Ethel Lord were incensed by it , having used the act of sex all their wedded lives as something to bargain with , employing their very contempt for it as a punishment regularly meted out to husbands who lusted after the nasty performance far too much . |
| 23 | and husbands who relied on the state to take over |
| 24 | All the young contenders who played in the victory over Oxfordshire are given another chance to prove themselves . |
| 25 | As these figures suggest , however , there was always a small minority of Low Church clergy who sided with the Whigs , whilst the Low Church bishops , of course , often used whatever influence they could to frustrate the election of Tories . |
| 26 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 27 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 28 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 29 | His back was to the window and he did not turn to spare a glance at the crush of the zeks who squirmed against the grime of the windows . |
| 30 | Hare , the world 's greatest accumulator who retired after the Pilkington Cup Final in April , signed off with a club record total of 438 points last season . |