Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a favourite of another record company called Intrascope Records , who asked us to cover the song . |
| 2 | As early as 1660 or 1661 he was in contact with Adam Boreel , the continental Christian Hebraist of the circle dominated by John Dury and Samuel Hartlib [ qq.v. ] , who commissioned him to translate the Mishnah , the Hebrew part of the Talmud , into Spanish . |
| 3 | His first job in his chosen profession was with Ferranti as a publicity assistant under John Ford , a former BAIE national chairman , who got him to join the Association . |
| 4 | Spices suited this situation very well : they had a high value in proportion to their weight , they could not be produced in Europe , and they were always valued by rich people who used them to mask the taste of the not-too-well preserved meat which was the best that anyone could hope for in the winter . |
| 5 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 6 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 7 | She rang her boss , who told her to call the thief . |
| 8 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 9 | It had become almost impossible for claimants and those who advised them to understand the system . |
| 10 | He blamed the suppliers of the chemicals and British Steel , who contracted him to do the work , for not warning him about the safety procedure . |
| 11 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work perhaps better than anyone . |
| 12 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work better than anyone . |
| 13 | In 1883 he entered the laboratory as bottle washer to James Taylor , chief chemist , who encouraged him to study the principles of chemical analysis . |
| 14 | In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . |
| 15 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 16 | How could they know how much more real and beautiful was the infinity inside her with its constellations of meanings , and the comet-blaze of truth that was Friend , who taught her to arrange the meanings in patterns of logic ? |
| 17 | ‘ Who taught you to play the piano , Tony ? ’ she asked . |
| 18 | His future was saved by the Dutch medical instrument company , Docshop , who signed him to attack the 250 Euro series . |
| 19 | The declaration committed those who signed it to recognise the independence and sovereignty of other members , to respect human rights including those of national minorities , and to observe existing boundaries . |
| 20 | Aung San travelled separately from the others , stopping over in Delhi to confer with Nehru who warned him to examine the British proposal ‘ with particular care … and not to be caught by it as I was ’ . |
| 21 | However , he impressed Sir Clements Markham [ q.v. ] , who selected him to command the SY Morning in 1902 to be sent to the relief of the Discovery expedition of Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 23 | Savoy Hotel directors evidently have an awesome regard for the talents of Willy Bauer , the celebrated manager who left them to supervise the links at Wentworth . |
| 24 | They were enough to stretch a teacher who wanted them to learn the beauty of poetry . |
| 25 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 26 | It is quite true , as the plaintiffs submit , that provided the person making the valuation is competent to value , it matters not who instructed him to produce the valuation or whether he is an employee of the building society or not . |