Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two provincial solicitors were the only two who agreed to the research following a random mailing of solicitors in the town . |
| 2 | This has proved an unfounded anxiety since the design and management of all full-time courses in the polytechnic sector were and remain the responsibility of persons who qualified via the Institution 's external examination system and entered teaching as qualified surveyors after years of service in the public or private sector . |
| 3 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the electric winger Yoshihito Yoshida , of Meiji University , who played for the World XV in the Centenary series against New Zealand . |
| 4 | LEFT : William Dick , who qualified at the College in 1817 and founded his own school in Edinburgh in 1823 . |
| 5 | Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege . |
| 6 | In practice , it was not the majority of the people who were to inherit power , but those who qualified by the ownership of property ; the ‘ people ’ had not yet come to include all inhabitants . |
| 7 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 8 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 9 | More characteristic was the active Louis VI of France , who succeeded on the whole in being a successful king , but only by the most strenuous activity . |
| 10 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 11 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 12 | Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father 's death . |
| 13 | Industrialists exploited their workers , and western nations exploited the rest of the world — but those who succeeded in the struggle were only too willing to see their success as the driving force of progress . |
| 14 | We tested the Volvo 460 on two readers who succeeded in the bid to get away . |
| 15 | But it 's not so brilliant for any shareholders who sold at the float price . |
| 16 | It follows that the person — doctor , nurse , or other — who complied with the request that treatment be withdrawn , provided he acted in good faith , would not be acting in violation of the criminal law . |
| 17 | Yeremi would avenge that victim on those who roosted at the summit . |
| 18 | There were men that " passed like ships in the night " — the good ones and men like " your father " who snored in the night and roared in the day who it was best to put a pillow between . |
| 19 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 20 | It was n't always the humble constable who resorted to the fist or stick . |
| 21 | Hoomey took Nutty , Nutty 's cousin Bean ( son of Uncle Knacker ) and a Sikh boy called Jazz , an amiable lad in jeans and a turban who lived down the road from him . |
| 22 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 23 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |
| 24 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 25 | His son , who lived with the family , died in Darlington Memorial Hospital late on Sunday night . |
| 26 | His grandmother , who lived with the family , was a diabetic and later had noticed her tablets had been interfered with . |
| 27 | It was probably here , too , that he first encountered Paul Odo Cross , the wealthy ex-ballet dancer who lived with the plant photographer , Angus Wilson , at Tidcombe Manor in Wiltshire , where they created a marvellous garden and influenced Cedric Morris with their growing and breeding of irises . |
| 28 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 29 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 30 | The Caribou Indians , who lived to the west of Hudson Bay in Canada , were dependent for their food supply on the caribou herds . |