Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 3 | At the time when Jesus was born , Herod the Great was the ‘ puppet king ’ who ruled Palestine for the Romans . |
| 4 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |
| 5 | This was Madge , who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights . |
| 6 | But in Lyons v. Wilkins the Court of Appeal had decided against the officers of a trade union who , having ordered a strike against the plaintiffs and against S ( who made goods for the plaintiffs only ) , organized pickets to seek to persuade work-people not to work for the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | It was Minton , not Vaughan , who was asked to judge competitions , who drew drawings for the Tribune pamphlet The Jews at Home by Woodrow Wyatt , MP ; Minton who was invited by the British Tourist Authority to illustrate their official booklet on London and whose design for the ‘ Christmas Books Number ’ appeared , with a Picassoesque lamp on the cover of The Listener on 9 December 1948 . |
| 8 | Traders and craftsmen , who provided goods for the troops and the King 's Court , built their houses on the sloping tail of rock which had been protected from erosion when slowly passing ice sheets had scraped at the valley floor . |
| 9 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 10 | Prestel was launched in 1979 to provide users with instant access to thousands of pages of information and the ability to communicate with other Prestel users and with some of those who provided information for the system . |
| 11 | The poor were the landless who provided labour for the rich . |
| 12 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 13 | Bruno Kurdna , who played fly-half for the great Czechoslovak team of the '70s , which beat Italy , Spain and drew with Romania , was thrilled . |
| 14 | If its distribution won them friends , a loss of employment was readily blamed on the same men who assumed credit for the award of patronage , and frequently credit was assumed but blame apportioned when the politician 's responsibility was unclear . |
| 15 | Thus immediately he managed to drive a wedge between the virtuous students , worthy of support , who studied sciences for the sake of society , and the self-indulgent arts students who pursued their chosen subject for the sake of their own benefit . |
| 16 | Naughton , who paid 15,000gns for the gelding last month , plans a campaign over fences for him next winter and he may find that Dai Burchell 's four-year-old Maamur will prove too good for him . |
| 17 | Furious Andy , of Abingdon , Oxon , who paid £1,000 for the ad , said : ‘ This is a right screw-up . |
| 18 | Four of the five remaining were auctioned off by Sotheby 's , two going to Cypriot businessman Savvas Constantinides ( who paid £110,000 for the two and who plans an aviation museum in either Pathos or Nicosia ) and two ( WR963 and WL790 ) are now in Coventry , owned by the Shackleton Preservation Society . |
| 19 | The mounting protests on all sides came as the outlawed Ulster Freedom Freedom fighters , who claimed responsibility for the four shootings , threatened to step up their murder campaign . |
| 20 | CONGRATULATIONS to two teams of employees from who raised £370 for the Spastics Society in March . |
| 21 | A spectacular opening to the £65,000 clinic designed as a counselling centre and to treat children with special needs ; the clinic 's being named after the rock musician Steve Winwood , who raised funds for the centre where his wife Gina is a voluntary helper . |
| 22 | The three offences mentioned above were originally introduced to deal with men who procured women for the benefit of third parties . |
| 23 | A further two female family members , both siblings from the 3rd generation , who required surgery for the same condition are now reported . |
| 24 | During the two occasions on which we talked , he seemed a caring and compassionate doctor blessed with a natural ease and affability , who needed publicity for the £2 million appeal he had launched to raise money to turn his Harley Street office into a well woman centre . |
| 25 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 26 | In the seventeenth century Louis XIV had a sculpture park at Versailles , but it surrounded his palace , and was more formally designed by Le Nôtre , who needed sculptures for the focal points of his avenues . |
| 27 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 28 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 29 | THOUSANDS who sent cheques for the National Savings First Option Bond were shabbily short-changed . |
| 30 | The victory of Gantt , a liberal who professed support for the right to abortion , and opposed the death penalty and high defence spending , meant that he would face Republican Jesse Helms , the right-wing conservative incumbent who , in his three terms in the Senate , had campaigned prominently against civil rights , federal spending and permissiveness . |