Example sentences of "who [vb past] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , however , it passed into the ownership of Lord Gerald of Brandon , who sold it in 1682 , to the Speaker of the House of Commons , Sir Edward Seymour . |
| 2 | Iford Manor was bought in 1773 by the Gaisford family , who owned it until 1853 . |
| 3 | It was first discovered by Gallard in 1884 , but credit has been given to Dieulafoy who described it in 1889 . |
| 4 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
| 5 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 6 | The East Ridge , first climbed in 1938 by Don Bryant and Lud Mahan , is thought to be affected , and the East Face route description is no longer entirely valid either — what with if falling off — which is a disappointment for first ascensionists Peter Farrell , Don Cowie , Vic Walsh and Lyn Crawford who climbed it in 1961 . |
| 7 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 8 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | Cornelius passed the something to his father , who examined it with great interest . |
| 10 | Since early days , the castle has been laid waste and rebuilt many times before being inherited by the great benefactress , Lady Anne Clifford , who restored it in 1660 . |
| 11 | Its sponsor was Count Nostic who leased it to various theatrical societies from the end of the 18C for the performance of Bohemian drama . |
| 12 | The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ is famous as a central work in the collection of Henry Philip Hope , who acquired it in 1796 from the influential sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti , who attached Dionysus 's head to the torso and supplied the larger figure with arms , lower legs and other details . |
| 13 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 14 | She passed the snapshot to Juliet , who took it with feigned interest . |
| 15 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
| 16 | It is usually known as the Metonic cycle , after the Athenian astronomer Meton who introduced it in 432 BC ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 17 | He could not mention it because it was not known in the Latin West before the revival of learning in the ‘ renaissance of the twelfth century ’ ( a useful term due to the American medievalist Charles Homer Haskins , who introduced it in 1927 ) . |
| 18 | Hope flicked to alert and took in the scene : five other parties , all yielding the centre to the couple who occupied it with proprietorial ease ; several guides being consulted , some read from aloud , everywhere the men pointing , the indies dipping their heads to listen or lifting them to question , with seeming humility , the words of the scholars and their translators . |
| 19 | The 35 players who beat par in the first round set a record , beating the 33 who did it in 1991 . |
| 20 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 21 | Von Sophias Wilbur , who won it with 2,273 points . |
| 22 | The award for the parliamentarian of the year went to shadow Chancellor Mr John Smith , who won it in 1986 . |
| 23 | The award for the parliamentarian of the year went to shadow Chancellor Mr John Smith , who won it in 1986 . |
| 24 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
| 25 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 26 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 27 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 28 | Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good . |
| 29 | The Home Secretary again referred the matter to the Court of Appeal who considered it in private and then rejected it . |