Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 32 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 33 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 34 | TED 'S POSITION as eighth alternate meant that eight men who had qualified for the heats would have to drop out before he was summoned . |
| 35 | In a speech on July 29 Aristide announced that all official papers would be written in both Creole and French and that all ministers and state and government employees had to be able to read and write Creole , " in memory of all the peasants who had died for the country 's sake " . |
| 36 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 37 | The headmaster , who had offered for the occasion his own private stretch of garden , was unusually gracious . |
| 38 | Most of the local men who had come for the conventicle , had come armed in case of a surprise attack , and many of the others agreed to arm themselves , but additional men would be required if the Dragoons were to be confronted . |
| 39 | This duly occurred , with one exception — an evil old crone named Thaukt ( who some say was Loki in disguise ) who refused to weep for the god . |
| 40 | In an earlier reply he suggested that in Northern Ireland , those who wanted to volunteer for the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve could volunteer for some other service . |