Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 2 | R. J. Campbell was himself a highly successful , because dramatic and controversial , preacher who eventually left Congregationalism for the Church of England . |
| 3 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |
| 4 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | The other MP nominated to the Committee , who eventually became President of the Institute , was William Tite ( 1798–1873 ) . |
| 6 | It could have been written by its bearer , given by Florence as Abbot Lyfing of Tavistock , who eventually became bishop of Worcester , for this would further explain how Florence had a copy . |
| 7 | The children of women with schizophrenia followed up by Mednick and his colleagues ( 1981a ) who eventually developed schizophrenia were more likely to have had perinatal complications than those who had had a non-traumatic birth . |
| 8 | The referee , Alfred Buksh , who rarely had control of a game that at one point seemed unlikely to be completed , booked Wimbledon 's Phelan , Wise , Young and the physiotherapist , Steve Allen , for treating an injured player without permission , and West Ham 's Allen and Dicks , before his dismissal . |
| 9 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |
| 10 | There were too many people who badly needed dentistry and looked like they played the banjo . |
| 11 | Only rarely did its opponents win a victory like that of George Norris , the progressive Republican Senator who successfully opposed government plans to sell off dams and nitrogen-processing plants at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee Valley . |
| 12 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 13 | Another photographed and named victim who successfully resisted rape described her ordeal . |
| 14 | The Times obituary said ‘ By his death the veterinary world has lost one of the last of the band of pioneers who successfully converted veterinarianism into the great profession which is constantly advancing both in scientific knowledge and in public esteem . ’ |
| 15 | Lawyers are already claiming there is no real precedent , because the Japanese being compensated are those who personally experienced internment , whereas no US black can claim direct and personal damage by ‘ the peculiar institution ’ . |
| 16 | Thomas took himself a wife , Elizabeth Cooke , one of the three Cooke sisters , who greatly influenced society in their day . |
| 17 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 18 | If so , you could be the accountant who so incensed wildlife artist Adrian Rigby that he felt compelled to put his feelings about the profession into paint . |
| 19 | Lord Donaldson said that Mr Goodwin was a very young trainee journalist who only left university this summer . |
| 20 | As forecast , there was an unexpected men 's victor with Antonio Pinto , from Portugal , who only began marathon running last year , winning in 2hr 10min 02sec . |
| 21 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |
| 22 | She had two children who only spoke Swedish , and she found she could n't learn the language . |
| 23 | Encouraged by the Josephite hierarchy , who rightly suspected Nonpossessor sympathies among his closest advisers , the Tsar became increasingly impervious to advice . |
| 24 | The mandarins behind them , who all carried mirror wands like the emperor 's , followed their lead and stretched themselves full length on the flagstones of the courtyard . |
| 25 | And it contrasts with double Grand Slam winners Will Carling , Jon Webb , Rory Underwood , Rob Andrew , Mick Skinner and Peter Winterbottom who all went south to further their careers . |
| 26 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 27 | As Philip Bacon put it , ‘ A quite extraordinary group of people who all courted publicity were playing the game . |
| 28 | He is the fifth manager to leave Crewe Park in the last two years following in the footsteps of Paul O'Gara , Terry Nicholson , Jack Walsh and Sammy Watson , who all parted company with the club last season . |
| 29 | I shook my head and was saved from further entreaties by the arrival once again of the children who all wanted choice titbits from the grownups , ‘ table ’ , kisses and praise . |
| 30 | In January , one ship had visited Dili bringing four officers and some 50 reinforcements who apparently thought independence meant lack of discipline . |