Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding was received from one Norwich newspaper , the Eastern Daily Press , who agreed to support the project over a three year period . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 3 | In desperation Mr Gresty turned to soldiers at nearby Catterick Garrison who agreed to recover the truck stuck in the River Skerne , on the outskirts of Darlington . |
| 4 | But Roe , who qualified to join the line-up featuring 28 of the world 's best players courtesy of his victory in the Lancome Trophy , was delighted with his . |
| 5 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 6 | In that year Mrs Shaw and Mrs Whipp led a petition of sixty midwives of the City in opposition to Peter Chamberlen the elder [ q.v. ] , a man-midwife who planned to incorporate the midwives under his governorship . |
| 7 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 8 | 21-year-old Jason Hardman is one of 3,000 who applied to join the force — this year West Mercia will take on about a hundred . |
| 9 | 21-year-old Jason Hardman is one of 3,000 who applied to join the force — this year West Mercia will take on about a hundred . |
| 10 | But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them . |
| 11 | He and other stars who fought to save the show are bitter their Pounds 600,000-a-year roles are finished . |
| 12 | Jade and Rose continue to show their appreciation for the medical staff at Stoke Mandeville who fought to keep the baby alive . |
| 13 | One of those who fought to prevent the building said ‘ We do n't know if it is worth preserving after all the upheaval on site ’ . |
| 14 | Anyone who failed to answer the summons was liable to be beaten . |
| 15 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for Germany , however , the commander on the spot was the timorous General Max von Prittwitz , who failed to exploit the opportunity through fear of his numerical inferiority . |
| 17 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 18 | True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown . |
| 19 | He was run very close in the contest by Steve Richardson ( 29th ) , who failed to make the Walker Cup side of 1989 . |
| 20 | Michael Duffy yesterday clinched a place in the last 16 of the World Amateur Championships in Bangkok , but there was great disappointment for Ulster number one Andy Sharpe who failed to make the play-offs . |
| 21 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 22 | Myo Nyunt in a speech on Aug. 15 , 1989 , accused traders who failed to cut the price of rice , meat and fish of " aiming at political and economic instability " . |
| 23 | Their critical comments about Marxism-Leninism led them into confrontation with the college authorities , who failed to bring the students back into line . |
| 24 | But for some who failed to master the course , it 'll be a long and lonely drive home . |
| 25 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 26 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 27 | Published by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) in Canada , the papers were prepared by media theoreticians and practitioners from across the African continent who met to discuss the use of media to relay development information . |
| 28 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
| 29 | It was these northern gentry who became the model for those who sought to save the influence of the nobility by involving it in a movement for reform and economic progress . |
| 30 | So here was an instance of the son of a local worthy insisting on recording his name differently from his father , making sure the charge was not described as a mangonel , and further trying to ensure that any of his father 's descendants who sought to use the arms should spell their name Magnall , a form from which it is difficult if not impossible to divine the relevance and punning nature of the heraldic charge . |