Example sentences of "who have [verb] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my researches in the library of the Royal Geographical Society I learnt that in 1875 an Egyptian army commanded by Munzinger , a Swiss mercenary who had served under Gordon in Equatoria , had set out to invade Abyssinia from Tajura , and been exterminated by the Danakil before they reached Aussa . |
| 2 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 3 | There is Barnabas , who used to be a rich , landowning Cypriot Levite : Symeon , called ‘ Swarthy ’ , who seems to have been a Negro ; Lucius of Cyrene , no doubt a Jew from the dispersion in North Africa ; Manaen , who was educated in court circles alongside Herod the tetrarch ; and Saul of Tarsus , the Jew from the Levant who had studied under Gamaliel . |
| 4 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 5 | Drafted by the Conservative Research Department , it was presented by William Whitelaw , the Shadow Home Secretary , and David Howell , formerly a junior Minister who had worked under Whitelaw at the Northern Ireland Office and was at the time a Front Bench spokesman on Home Affairs . |
| 6 | Wycliffe remembered a great-uncle who had fought under Buller and talked of little else . |
| 7 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 8 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 9 | Many Europeans who have lived under regimes where officialdom can do no wrong would regard the aftermath of My Lai as a triumph of democratic practice . |