Example sentences of "[noun prp] who [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was David who replied to Nina 's question . |
| 2 | It records the emigration of many Fenwick families , including one called Dickie who went to Canada in 1832 and settled in the small town of Galt in Ontario . |
| 3 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |
| 4 | A less obvious but equally successful choice was Arrigo Sacchi , an unknown second-division manager from Parma who brought to Milan an attractive , attacking ( and so rather un-Italian ) type of football . |
| 5 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 6 | Hussain Mohammad Ershad who came to power in 1982 after a military coup , was forced as result of widespread demonstrations to resign as President in early December 1990 . |
| 7 | A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time . |
| 8 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 9 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 10 | It was Cenwealh who recommended to Ealhfrith c . |
| 11 | And I had an affection for Bernard who went to school with me . |
| 12 | These links were made possible , in the first instance , by a few brave Gaullist agents , most notably a former prefect called Jean Moulin who returned to France in January 1942 with instructions from de Gaulle to promote the unification of resistance movements . |
| 13 | Dunloy 's Gregory O'Kane comes into the side at right half forward , with Paddy Walsh moving from the attack to midfield where he partners Paul McKillen in place of Paul Jennings who departed to America during the week . |
| 14 | ‘ If you had a Rip Van Winkle who went to sleep before the programme started and woke up now , he would have difficulty in recognising what had happened . ’ |
| 15 | Unlikely as it may seem now , it was Evelyn Waugh who came to Wilson 's defence and acknowledged the brilliance and aptness of the book 's main conceit , which — given the turn of events in Eastern and Central Europe — is apropos once more . |
| 16 | The new signings also face the pressure of winning over the fans who idolised Ian Wright , now at Arsenal , and Mark Bright who moved to Sheffield Wednesday last week . |
| 17 | In debate with Trypho , Justin exploited this principle : because the almighty Father is transcendent , the God who appeared to Moses at the burning bush can not have been the Father but his Word and Reason ( Logos ) who is therefore ‘ other than the Father in number though not in will ’ . |
| 18 | We are most worried that the Burmese Government have disregarded not only the United Nations Commission on Human Rights but the foreign minister of the Philippines who went to Burma on behalf of the Association of South-East Asian Nations but was allowed to make representations only on his own behalf . |
| 19 | However , Hitler abandoned those peaceful negotiations for threats of violence , and that outraged Chamberlain who appealed to Mussolini to help him persuade Hitler to attend one more conference . |
| 20 | Do you recall that nice Mr Spurgeon who came to dinner ? |
| 21 | with Cloning of Joanna who went to bed did n't she ? |
| 22 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 23 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 24 | Motivation for this monumental serial , so the story goes , hailed from Programme Head Huw Weldon who suggested to Verity Lambert and Dennis Spooner a mammoth-length Dalek production because , allegedly , his mother was a great fan of the Daleks . |
| 25 | There once was a lady called Polly who talked to flowers . |
| 26 | Cedd , who acted as interpreter at the council , died in this plague ( HE 111 , 23 ) , probably on 26 October 664 , and so did Tuda , appointed bishop of Lindisfarne in succession to Colmań who returned to Iona after Oswiu had given his decision at Whitby in favour of the Catholic Easter ( HE 111 , 27 ) . |
| 27 | He had taken off his paint-stiffened apron but there was blue paint in his hair and his hands were blue , like those of the Jumblies who went to sea in a sieve . |
| 28 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 29 | This happened to Hollywood hellraising hunk Nick Nolte who shot to fame in the TV mini-series Rich Man , Poor Man . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a big shock , ’ admitted Dorothy who went to Buckingham Palace with her husband , Ron , to receive it from the Queen . |