Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their return to the hotel , the three were caught climbing a security fence by armed guards who mistook them for Scotland fans . |
| 2 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 3 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 4 | Search consultants joining companies who hired them for search : |
| 5 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 6 | Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . |
| 7 | But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight , who pipped them for victory . |
| 8 | With three in ten games under Ossie Ardiles , who signed him for £250,000 for Leicester in December , Kelly 's acquisition looked like another dud deal by the Magpies until Keegan 's celebrated second coming on Tyneside . |
| 9 | Toshack 's admiration for Shankly , who signed him for Liverpool from Cardiff in 1970 , is unquestionably deep : still the overwhelming influence on his career . |
| 10 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 11 | Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’ |
| 12 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 13 | She 's the one who did it for money |
| 14 | And who bought them for Mummy ? |
| 15 | The Turner was given to the Royal Holloway — which occupies a 800-room Grade I listed building — in 1883 by its founder , Thomas Holloway , a Victorian philanthropist who bought it for £3,675 . |
| 16 | Called after the man who invented it for research purposes . |
| 17 | These were taken by local retailers , who accumulated them for exchange against larger bills drawn on London . |