Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 2 | in terms of , I mean Bill was the one who drafted up the |
| 3 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 4 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 5 | Born before 1700 , James Stewart ( the son of John Stewart of Ardsheil ) was the illegitimate elder brother of Charles Stewart , fifth of Ardsheil , who led out the Appin Stewarts in the rebellion of 1745 . |
| 6 | The brothers , who fought out the finish of the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham 's Sunday fixture , are heading for another showdown in the Bula Hurdle over the same course and distance . |
| 7 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 8 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 9 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 10 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 11 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 12 | Three years ago , nobody who read either the front , middle or back pages of a newspaper could have missed reading about the exploits of these two mega-stars . |
| 13 | For John Dunlop , 78 , from Edinburgh , who read out the names of some of those who died , the memories came flooding back . |
| 14 | In 1710 he was visited by the noted German traveller Conrad von Uffenbach , who sought out the most eminent instrument makers in London . |
| 15 | " Ludd " was again invoked , but so too was a new name , " Enoch " , the huge hammer of destruction named , ironically , after the firm of Enoch and James Taylor who made both the shearing frames and the sledges which broke them ! |
| 16 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 17 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 18 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 19 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 20 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 21 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 22 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 23 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 24 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 25 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 26 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 27 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 28 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 29 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 30 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |