Example sentences of "who spent [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of these officials will now be tainted by associations with Zhao Ziyang , who spent much of his early career in Guangdong . |
| 2 | Hamar was a highly trained imported showhorse , who spent much of his life in unnatural and stressful conditions . |
| 3 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 4 | Claude , the seventeenth-century French painter who spent much of his life in Italy , formulated a set of rules for landscape painting that became de rigueur . |
| 5 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 6 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 7 | With her was her bit on the side , one John Bryan , a financial wizard , all the way from Texas , who spent much time in close proximity , valuing her assets . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 9 | Miyagi 's instructor was the great Kanryo Higaonna , who spent much of his youth on mainland China and is known to have studied Chinese boxing methods . |
| 10 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |
| 11 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 12 | It was another highly talented Scottish athlete Ian McCafferty 21 years previously who spent much of his time ( and money ) phoning home from the Munich Olympics . |
| 13 | It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers . |
| 14 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 15 | While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month . |
| 16 | School and college for Robert divided us anyway , and it was Ann and I who spent all our time together . |
| 17 | When reading it on the spot , along with Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon , the visitor becomes entirely absorbed in the bizarre life of Louis XIV , a monarch who spent all his time in public , and yet allowed no man — except his brother — to sit down directly in front of him . |
| 18 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 19 | Edwin Stephenson , who played for Yorkshire between 1858 and 1873 , was one of the youngsters who spent many hours ‘ pegging ’ away , bowling at Sampson on the Broomhall pitch . |
| 20 | The John Motum Plate was named in recognition of the current assistant treasurer of the RFU who spent many years as general secretary of Colchester . |
| 21 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |
| 22 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 23 | Never a mention of the one who spent many an hour teaching him the way of things . |
| 24 | I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian ( Mr. Eadie ) , who spent many years on both sides of the Dispatch Box defending the interests of the nation and the British mining industry , pointed that out in his speech . |
| 25 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 26 | Solid , unsensational book written by a black New York sociologist who spent several years with Hispanic and black teenage cocaine dealers . |
| 27 | Ofahengaue was first linked with rugby league when the Manly-Warringah coach Graham Lowe , who spent several seasons coaching in England , spotted the Tongan Torpedo when attending a rugby match involving Ofahengaue 's Manly club . |
| 28 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 29 | In a similar vein , Clara Malraux who spent several months in the company of Nizan in Moscow in 1934 , recalls that Nizan 's hopes for the creation of " new values " , a " new man " in Soviet society were not fulfilled : " It seemed to us that the new man had not yet emerged " . |
| 30 | Jess the collie was a laid-back sort of hound who spent most of his life stretched out on a fireside rug in his large Surrey home . |