Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the prizes on offer in the codtabulous competition were a little bit special , as are the clever people who became the ten winners . |
| 2 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 3 | ‘ Some burglars have hidden stolen property in the hedge of the house they have broken into , ’ said Detective Inspector Jon Shatford , who led the 150 officers carrying out the raids in Operation Bumblebee . |
| 4 | Harjinder Singh and Sukhdevo Singh , convicted in 1989 [ see p. 37345 ] of killing in 1986 Gen. Arun Vaidya , the former army chief who led the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar , in Punjab [ see pp. 33221-24 ] , were hanged in Pune on Oct. 9 . |
| 5 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 6 | The Sandfords kept open house for anyone who rode the fifteen miles from Addis Ababa , and it was a rewarding experience to stay with them , for their knowledge of the country and of its people was outstanding . |
| 7 | Spence , who made the 1992 Dunhill Cup team for England , is obviously a rising star . |
| 8 | In a paper delivered in 1978 at a Conference on Island and Coastal Communities Dr Una Maclean , who supervised the 1975 study , said it showed quite conclusively ‘ that North Uist women had less depression than their Camberwell sisters . |
| 9 | Hastings had also received good wishes from Finlay Calder , the Stewart's-Melville player who captained the 1989 Lions in Australia . |
| 10 | BOBBY MOORE , the football hero who lifted the 1966 World Cup for England , died yesterday after a two-year fight against cancer . |
| 11 | A FOOTBALL legend in his own glorious lifetime , Bobby Moore , OBE , will above all be remembered as the man who lifted the 1966 World Cup for Alf Ramsey 's England . |
| 12 | Grades 2 and 3 indicate patency of the infarct related vessel and were found mostly in these 50 patients seen and treated within the first 4 hours after the onset of symptoms who received the 100 mg rt-PA . |
| 13 | Caribbean interest in athletics has been enlivened by the Olympic success in 1976 of Don Quarrie of Jamaica in the 200 metres and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who dominated the 100 metres event in the mid-1970s . |
| 14 | However , at the Secret Life of the Fax Machine exhibition which opens at the Science Museum in London today , Bain 's patent specification will be on display along with a drawing of how it would have worked by the cartoonist Tim Hunkin , who uncovered the 1843 patent . |
| 15 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 16 | According to the Dickens view , opposition to Henry 's ecclesiastical policies was negligible , being restricted to the unrepresentative northern backwoodsmen who joined the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace , and a few saintly martyrs , such as the London Carthusians , Sir Thomas More , and John Fisher , Bishop of Rochester . |
| 17 | Jamie Hunter ( Toyota North Down ) who broke the 12 hour record last Sunday , has the form to take an overall lead before the final race at Randalstown next week . |
| 18 | There were violent confrontations with some 900 police , who kept the two groups apart ; about 50 arrests were made . |
| 19 | To the end of his days , he believed that his ten shillings a week pension kept him , but of course it was my father who kept the two homes going . |
| 20 | She has taught international seminars in Denmark , France , England , South Africa , Malaysia and Thailand , and all our members who attended the 1986 Coburg course were delighted to be taught by her there . |
| 21 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 22 | No one who saw the 1986 Gold Cup and knew of Dawn Run 's subsequent fate could look with unmixed emotions on her statue by the Cheltenham parade ring , where she left a permanent mark on racing history . |
| 23 | Those who saw the 30 yard putt she holed stone dead at the eighth , or her playing of the 18th , where she hit a glorious seven iron to ten feet before holing for her birdie , could be forgiven for wondering what on earth she was talking about . |
| 24 | He appealed for anyone who saw the three youths on the road at 8.15pm on Thursday to contact Chester CID on . |
| 25 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 26 | Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors . |
| 27 | They did nothing to root out the men who bankrolled the 1989 Centenary Tour which was brought together in such a sordid , furtive fashion . |
| 28 | A penalty in the opening minutes of their game last October gave them 3 points , or perhaps it was goalkeeper , Nicky Hammond who saved the 3 points . |
| 29 | It is not , I believe , a matter of coincidence , that the only current British World Champion is Jamie Delgado , who won the 14-and-under title in Florida last year and owes nothing whatever to the LTA or its training and development programme . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland welcome back after injury their brilliant intermediate 300 metres hurdler Allison Curbishley , while newcomer Jocelyn Kirby , who won the 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles at the NorthEast Championships , will be making her club debut . |