Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person who agreed to participate in a discussion programme in order to refute allegations could not complain about their public repetition , unless they included matters which the interviewee had specifically refused to discuss before the programme was recorded . |
| 2 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 3 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 4 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 5 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 6 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 7 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 8 | Winston Thomas , 47 , who became known as the Bus Stop Rapist , had raped two women and assaulted and robbed three others in a two-month reign of terror in Wood Green , north London . |
| 9 | But when the orangs — who became known as the Taiwan Ten — reached Indonesia , the main Indonesian negotiator , Sutisna Wartaputra , director general of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ( PHPA ) , changed his mind and refused permission for the animals to go to Tanjung Puting . |
| 10 | A computerised operation to save rare plants and trees was launched by the Trust 's Botanical Consultant , Michael Lear , who became known in the media as ‘ Green Adair ’ . |
| 11 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 12 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 13 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 14 | Police are concerned about an old man who failed to return to the Robert Huggins Home for the Elderly in Acklam , Middlesbrough , after leaving to go shopping on Monday afternoon . |
| 15 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 16 | On Sunday , the Vesta Veterans ' Head , over the same course , includes St Andrew , who failed to enter for the big one on time . |
| 17 | So too would the much-hyped and for once apparently sober hardcore outfit LMS , who failed to deliver on the promise of an anarchic stage act . |
| 18 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 19 | They concealed the horses and made camp among the trees , out of sight of anyone who chanced to pass during the night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In France the rule of the dukes who sought to govern in the place of Charles VI who , since 1393 , had suffered from the intermittent attacks of a mental illness which was to remain with him until his death in 1422 , appealed to a rising sense of nationalism which tended to favour a vigorous defence of French interests . |
| 22 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 23 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 24 | Look at the men who got killed in the Dardanelles because of him . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 26 | As far as he was concerned , both she and her sister were two of a kind — cheap and unprincipled , living for the moment , regardless of who got hurt in the process . |
| 27 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 28 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 29 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 30 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |