Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 2 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 3 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | Police have been continuing the search for the body of a woman who went missing twenty years ago . |
| 5 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 6 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 7 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 8 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 9 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 10 | James Christie , one of the leading figures in the town council of Stirling , had a son in the navy named Francis Christie , who had served six years as a midshipman in the West Indies , and had confidence in his ability to pass the examination for lieutenant . |
| 11 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 12 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 13 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 14 | For one night at least , one member of the quartet who hijacked the course of popular music lived up to the hopes of those who had waited 23 years for the moment . |
| 15 | It may be that depredations had occurred before they got to Strichen ; Boswell , who had visited fifteen years earlier , clearly expected more from the druidical circle , although whether to impress Johnson further , or to avoid being thought an inaccurate provider of anticipations , is difficult to tell , as he does not expand beyond saying , ‘ … |
| 16 | Before her illness , Rose was a very sociable person , enjoying a full life with her husband Sid , who had retired two years previously . |
| 17 | At the subsequent press conference held high in the stadium stand , Foster hushed even the most hardened of hacks by dedicating his gold medal to his mother who had died two years earlier , along with other members of his family , in a car crash . |
| 18 | This included my Dad , who had died two years before . |
| 19 | She looked forty but must have been younger , and was dressed entirely in black — for her brother who had died three years ago , they said . |
| 20 | Decades had passed with no contact and yet here were the people who had shared seven years of my adolescence ; seven years climbing the same wall bars , sitting on the same grass , staring at the same view of Box Hill out of the window . |
| 21 | A London Christian , who had spent fifteen years in many branches of the occult before his conversion at the Luis Palau mission at Queens Park Rangers soccer stadium in 1985 , said : ‘ In my experience , there are not too many differences between the first group of witches and satanists . |
| 22 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 23 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 24 | Bassett brought alive a club who had spent 14 years since the mid-70s commuting between the Second and Third Divisions . |
| 25 | His ambition was stimulated by Nnamdi Azikwe , a Nigerian , who had spent many years ( 1925 — 34 ) in the United States doing graduate work at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 26 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 27 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 28 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 29 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 30 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |