Example sentences of "who [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got in touch with my French and German colleagues who agreed to support a UK proposal to place the matter on the agenda when it was presented for approval at the first meeting . |
| 2 | Next came talks with Hedlunds who agreed to do a turnkey operation , using a three-man team to erect the structure and local builders , plumbers , plasterers and electricians to complete the work . |
| 3 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 4 | In this case , the defendant ordered a Rolls Royce chassis from the plaintiffs who agreed to build a body on it by 20 March . |
| 5 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 6 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 7 | He hoped that anyone over the coming weeks who failed to get a job because of not being a union member would write to the Government and explain the facts . |
| 8 | The Aristotelian talk of definitions ‘ does not reveal nature to us , but only does the same as the man who promised to discover a treasure and then says ‘ look where it is hidden and you will find it . ’ |
| 9 | Tim Sutton , who helped to foil a raid at Clacton jewellers SB Totham |
| 10 | The report mentions one case of a man who tried to sell a plant which would convert rubbish into natural gas , and was only unmasked as a fraud at a late stage when it was shown that his scheme involved a chemically impossible process . |
| 11 | An animal lover , who tried to stop a gang hanging a cat from a tree , was punched and kicked before he could rescue it . |
| 12 | Run down by her own car … the nurse who tried to stop a thief . |
| 13 | POLICE hunting a bogus social worker who tried to snatch a child have arrested a woman . |
| 14 | Video pictures have been released of a man who tried to snatch a baby girl from her pushchair . |
| 15 | Well it 's like those lads that time who tried to nick a snooker table , they got it , they got it about a hundred yards |
| 16 | A MAN who tried to grab a briefcase containing a substantial sum of cash from a man in North Ormesby market-place , Middlesbrough , is being hunted by police . |
| 17 | A MASKED man who tried to attack a courting couple in their car was a serial rapist , police believe . |
| 18 | She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta . |
| 19 | To her , people were more important than places : the young people 's sergeant major in charge of the Sunday School who did " everything well " ; teachers at school and Sunday School ; Miss Coe , Miss Cooper , Mr Adsett , " shining people " who seemed to have a kind of glow , a quality of goodness which Eva found very attractive . |
| 20 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 21 | There were two Catholics from Northern Ireland who seemed to know a lot about the British Army . |
| 22 | Oscar Wilde had his Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1895 ) — the original four-act version — fob off the solicitor Gribsby who came to serve a writ on him , with frivolous repartee . |
| 23 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 24 | He was shot trying to stop some guys who came to steal a lot of our money . |
| 25 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 26 | The plaintiffs obtained an injunction to restrain the defendants notwithstanding that the product in question ( a swizzle stick embossed with the name of the ship upon which it was to be used ) was available to anyone who happened to take a cruise on that ship . |
| 27 | I 'm here to tell you that if Alan is right and big Arnie ( pictured left ) did the body beautiful business behind the Co that night , anyone who happened to take a photograph of him should send it in to me pronto . |
| 28 | A driver who forgot to pay a parking fine is in hospital with his arm broken in three places after bailiffs tried to collect the money . |
| 29 | Approved by the government were members of the Orthodox clergy who began to establish a parish and diocesan network in Siberia early in the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Galliéni went by motorcar to French 's headquarters , where he saw only Major-General Sir Archibald Murray , Chief of Staff , who declined to make a decision in his superior 's name . |