Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who succeeded Herod the Great as ruler of Judaea ? |
| 2 | One contained the tomb of one of Bosnia 's most famous sons , Serhad Pasha Sokolovic , a Christian convert to Islam who became Suleiman the Magnificent 's grand vizier . |
| 3 | First to view the car was Don Hayter , who helped design the original MGB 30 years ago . |
| 4 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 5 | The woman used a spare key to open the back door , retrieved the telephone and called the police who arrested Smith the next day . |
| 6 | It was the Metropolitan Makarii who nurtured Ivan the Terrible 's hugely inflated notion of his office , and who prepared the dramatic ceremony which saw him crowned in 1547 not as mere Grand Prince but as unfettered ‘ Tsar ’ ( derived from ‘ Caesar ’ ) . |
| 7 | And who was the bruiser who gave Kirk the big headache ? |
| 8 | Even Frank Williams , who gave Mansell the fresh start he craved in 1985 , believed he had signed no more than a ‘ journeyman ’ , who would serve as a useful number two driver . |
| 9 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 10 | ‘ He almost certainly was the one who gave Joanna the personal alarm which she was carrying , ’ he said . |