Example sentences of "who [vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before completing her payments and therefore before the car was hers , she sold it to B. B sold it to C , who sold it to Kingsway Motors , who in turn sold it to Butterworth . |
| 2 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 3 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 4 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 5 | It was then acquired by Wally McDonnel of Mojave , California , who sold it to Elmer Ward in the mid 1970s . |
| 6 | In fact , underpinning this remarkable find is the coincidence of an almost simultaneous archival discovery which proves this painting 's descent , right back to the man who commissioned it from Caravaggio himself . |
| 7 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 8 | Before landing his role in the super-soap series , Nader was a model who made it into movies . |
| 9 | Again , this feature was copied from the West Indians who used it as part of their own hairstyles . |
| 10 | Mr Crumwallis , satisfied that it was up to date , handed it to Mike Pumfrey , who inspected it in silence . |
| 11 | He pushed a cup of tea to his daughter who rejected it in favour of cold milk . |
| 12 | From their perspective , family problems were often underestimated by the agencies and their sense of parental responsibility , exercised in trying to ‘ get something done ’ , was violated by social workers who misinterpreted it as lack of commitment to their children 's needs ( Fisher et al . , |
| 13 | Ports skipper Brian Strain made a fine run into enemy territory before squaring the ball to the Scottish striker who buried it past John Grace from 16 yards . |
| 14 | At the end of Mass , Canon Mulvaney presented the Papal Blessing to Mrs Pat Nicholls , chairman , who received it on behalf of the section . |
| 15 | Chief executive presented a cup and a cheque for £250 to Ealees Mill operator , who received it on behalf of the Performance Fabrics team . |
| 16 | To this request the Registrar of the court acceded by ‘ entering judgement ’ for the lender who received it in writing . |
| 17 | He passed a slip of folded paper to Morgan who handed it to Horowitz without looking at it . |
| 18 | The Basic Law proved acceptable to the Western allies , who approved it in May 1949 . |
| 19 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 20 | Today it is the home of John and Hazel Cork who renovated it after years of neglect and a serious fire . |
| 21 | Mr Kobold passed a glass to Cornelius who raised it in salute . |
| 22 | The news was received , by those who heard it on Thrush Green , in a variety of ways . |
| 23 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 24 | Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’ |
| 25 | The Great Sancy takes it name from a French ambassador to Turkey who acquired it in Constantinople and on his return to France in 1593 lent it to Henry IV as a pledge for money to pay his troops . |
| 26 | It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried . |
| 27 | Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’ |
| 28 | He offered the pink blossom to his chick , who twirled it in front of her briefly lit face before dropping it to the ground . |
| 29 | But the EC President 's demand for solidarity angered Euro-sceptics , who saw it as Brussels trying to dictate British policy on a wide range of issues . |
| 30 | It had an industrial setting ; but those who saw it in South Africa began to apply its idea . |