Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 2 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 3 | Winston Thomas , 47 , who became known as the Bus Stop Rapist , had raped two women and assaulted and robbed three others in a two-month reign of terror in Wood Green , north London . |
| 4 | But when the orangs — who became known as the Taiwan Ten — reached Indonesia , the main Indonesian negotiator , Sutisna Wartaputra , director general of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ( PHPA ) , changed his mind and refused permission for the animals to go to Tanjung Puting . |
| 5 | A computerised operation to save rare plants and trees was launched by the Trust 's Botanical Consultant , Michael Lear , who became known in the media as ‘ Green Adair ’ . |
| 6 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 7 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 8 | Promoters presumably would fall within Albert 's nongenotoxic or epigenetic category , a daunting prospect to those who favour erring on the side of safety . |
| 9 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 10 | Police are concerned about an old man who failed to return to the Robert Huggins Home for the Elderly in Acklam , Middlesbrough , after leaving to go shopping on Monday afternoon . |
| 11 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 12 | On Sunday , the Vesta Veterans ' Head , over the same course , includes St Andrew , who failed to enter for the big one on time . |
| 13 | So too would the much-hyped and for once apparently sober hardcore outfit LMS , who failed to deliver on the promise of an anarchic stage act . |
| 14 | They concealed the horses and made camp among the trees , out of sight of anyone who chanced to pass during the night . |
| 15 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 16 | In France the rule of the dukes who sought to govern in the place of Charles VI who , since 1393 , had suffered from the intermittent attacks of a mental illness which was to remain with him until his death in 1422 , appealed to a rising sense of nationalism which tended to favour a vigorous defence of French interests . |
| 17 | Prospective students who are already in the UK or who intend to come to the UK and wish to visit the University should write to the International Office providing details of their proposed course of study and possible weekday dates when they could visit . |
| 18 | Those medical graduates who intend to practise in the UK become provisionally registered with the General Medical Council after graduation . |
| 19 | Those veterinary graduates who intend to practise in the UK or the EC become registered by right of their BVM&S degree , in the United Kingdom Register of Veterinary Surgeons and become Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons . |
| 20 | Norris , still clad in his white lab coat , was one of those medical students whom fate has seemingly marked out to spend the bulk of their studies and initial training suffering from quite stupendous hangovers incurred through the intake of near-fatal levels of alcohol the night before , and their subsequent professional careers sternly finger-wagging at any member of the general public who dares to consume over the course of a week what they themselves had been perfectly happy to sink during the average evening . |
| 21 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 22 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 23 | Look at the men who got killed in the Dardanelles because of him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 25 | As far as he was concerned , both she and her sister were two of a kind — cheap and unprincipled , living for the moment , regardless of who got hurt in the process . |
| 26 | If you are the sort of person who needs to go to the lavatory when you are nervous make sure you know where it is . |
| 27 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |
| 28 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
| 29 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 30 | It is linked to the preamp by means of a lockable multi-pin connector , which is a very sensible idea , as anyone who has suffered from the lead-as-tripwire syndrome will no doubt agree . |