Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 2 | A significant achievement was persuading an estimated 23,000 former contra rebels to demobilize [ see pp. 37370-71 ; 37450 ] but Chamorro antagonized right-wing parties in the ruling UNO coalition by retaining the former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as the C.-in-C. of a re-formed army [ see pp. 37527 ; 37849-50 ] . |
| 3 | Porterfield has already gone on record by saying the former England coach has easily proved to be his best signing . |
| 4 | Route 5 — West Croydon — Crystal Palace to be strengthened to a five-minute service by extending the former Robin Hood and Selby Road short workings through to Croydon . |
| 5 | One of the leading contenders , Mr Eduardo ‘ Danding ’ Conjuanco , added glamour to his campaign this week by persuading the former heart-throb actor Joseph Estrada to postpone his own presidential ambitions and become his running mate . |
| 6 | Peter Gilchrist , a 21-year old Teessider , retained the British Open championship by beating the former world champion Norman Dagley 1,166-1,008 in the four-hour final in Leeds . |
| 7 | Parys , who had become Poland 's first civilian National Defence Minister on his appointment in the new government of December 1991 , had provoked controversy by forcing the former Defence Minister , Vice-Adml . |