Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had supposed it would be Mrs Livesey who got to know first . ’ |
| 2 | Another unlucky woman is Debbie Gillard , who got married last Saturday to RUSS HUNT , top crew geezer for the STUFFIES and brother of MILO O'HUNT . |
| 3 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 4 | The Elms , who seemed to stand next in line , were plain and sturdy , with pale-ish bark for skin and a good deal of greenery . |
| 5 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 6 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 7 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 8 | Calvin Smith came in ahead of me but I beat the Pole Marian Woronin , who had run third at the previous European . |
| 9 | Does he believe that the loans plus grants system covers the full year or does it cover only the terms after the Christmas and Easter vacations and , if so , what does he recommend to students who can not find work during the summer in the present employment conditions and who had to resort last summer to the soup kitchens ? |
| 10 | Miss Gabriel , who had given First Aid instruction during the Great War , invited the crippled inmates out to tea ‘ in connection with the Guild of the Brave Poor Things ’ . |
| 11 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 12 | The second day was equally a hard slog , particularly given a competition for the teams who had finished last in their pool . |
| 13 | Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 . |
| 14 | Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 . |
| 15 | On 5 December he received 44.6 per cent of the vote and was forced into a runoff election against Mitterrand , who had come second with 31.7 per cent . |
| 16 | The less fortunate , together with those who had arrived first at the Laboratory that morning and all the senior scientists , had been told they must await the arrival of the team from Scotland Yard . |