Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Greek mythology keres were VAMPIRE-like spirits who attacked the body when it was time to die . |
| 2 | This led to insubordination amongst the Seventh Infantry who attacked the Governor and wounded one of the officers who accompanied him . |
| 3 | She it was who entertained the Marquis and three of his friends simultaneously . |
| 4 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |
| 5 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 6 | It was White , said Evans , who kidnapped the couple and set fire to their car . |
| 7 | There were red faces when halfway through an interview it was noticed that veteran Hal Roach , who produced the Laurel and Hardy movies , had not buttoned up his trousers properly . |
| 8 | ‘ In other words , it became technically possible for me , some three years ago , to make certain accurate predictions about a human individual by studying the structure of a newly fertilized female reproductive cell , in conjunction with detailed investigation of the adults who produced the ovum and the spermatozoon that fertilized it . ’ |
| 9 | Their position as outsiders was not transformed until the outbreak of the Second World War when it was Chamberlain 's ardent supporters , the ‘ appeasers ’ who became the outsiders and the ‘ guilty men ’ . |
| 10 | It was she who immortalised the pathos and depth of feeling contained in the song , titled as above . |
| 11 | To conclude the story I do n't know who pegged the match but afterwards I talked to one of the locals who told me they never peg the stretch where I was . |
| 12 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 13 | Jamie Spence , who led the trio that defeated Montgomerie-led Scotland in the final at St Andrews last October , shot a pace-setting 67 in the Moroccan Open first round , and David Gilford , the outstanding player that week on the Old Course , had 68 . |
| 14 | For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began . |
| 15 | It was William and Hugh who led the foresters and verderers to search the houses of suspects for evidence and arrest offenders , and who presided at special inquests on Forest offences , and at the local Forest courts . |
| 16 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 17 | Syracuse had long been ruled by tyrants who patronised the arts and sciences . |
| 18 | In the market place stands the chateau , formerly the bishop 's residence , which was enlarged in Renaissance style in the sixteenth century by the governor who ruled the town after it had become subject to Bern in 1536 . |
| 19 | He did not mind who ruled the kingdom as long as the prince was strong , courageous and ready to defend it against a ring of enemies . |
| 20 | Workmen digging the site for the new Hilton Hotel at Lydiard Fields have discovered the bones of several large marine reptiles — including Pliosaurs , Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs — who inhabited the area when it was covered by sea . |
| 21 | One gentleman who braved the bumps and pitfalls of the post-coach from England in 1846 was Thomas de Quincey , the son of a Manchester merchant . |
| 22 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 23 | Cargoes taken to and from the East were carried in specially built ships , which were among the largest contemporary merchantmen , the East Indiamen , and the officers ' places in these ships were an additional source of private patronage for those politicians who enjoyed influence with the owners of the ships , for it was the owners , not the Company , who appointed the commander and mates of East Indiamen . |
| 24 | The Santerres stayed well away from Mandeville who stalked the galleries and corridors shouting orders at both servants and the dead sheriff 's soldiers . |
| 25 | Thus feudal society came to comprise four distinct social strata : the nobility and the clergy , who controlled most of the land and enjoyed the agricultural surplus ; the serfs , who cultivated the land and were bound to it ; and the burgesses . |
| 26 | An hour later he was awakened by Sunil , who unlocked the door and ushered him in apologetically . |
| 27 | He was the patron saint of Michael Thun , who commissioned the building and the St Michael is the work of Ottaviano Mosto , c.1693 . |
| 28 | It should describe who commissioned the report and , if necessary , why it was required . |
| 29 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 30 | At the same time one can have sympathy with those who devised the term because it is the tangential force per unit charge integrated over a closed path . |