Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Europe was split by the attempts of those who sought to unite it by force . |
| 2 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 3 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 4 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 5 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 6 | In addition , garage C was subject to a mortgage whereby the appellants advanced , under a loan agreement , £7,000 to the respondents who covenanted to repay it by instalments over a period of 21 years . |
| 7 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 8 | Fewer visitors there may have been , but those who did make it from Ireland said their traditional farewell to the town 's Queen 's Hotel last night . |
| 9 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 10 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 11 | In Lethbridge v. Phillips , L , a celebrated miniature painter , lent a miniature to B who wished to show it to the defendant . |
| 12 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 13 | I was the one who had to take it to my tutor , not them . |
| 14 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 15 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 16 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 17 | There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the anecdote , which Kemalpasazade relates from an earlier , unidentified historian who had heard it from Mehmed II himself ; and it would seem to establish conclusively that Molla Yegan was still alive in 857/1453 . |
| 18 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 19 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 20 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 21 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 22 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 23 | President Randy Mueller , the all-American boy who had made it from right here in his little ole home town of Detroit . |
| 24 | He waited until the taxi had driven off before crossing the road to the Windorah , a small bar run by Dave Jenkins , an Australian who had named it after his birthplace in Queensland . |
| 25 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 26 | He took over this " constitutional " role from Second Vice-President Carlos García García , who had assumed it in his absence . |
| 27 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 28 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 29 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
| 30 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |