Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 2 | Although the current five-year term of the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) administration could have run until 1993 [ for 1988 general election see pp. 36352-53 ] , Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who succeeded the veteran Lee Kuan Yew in November 1990 , wished to secure a popular mandate for his leadership and its changes of policy emphasis [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 3 | It was built by the Stephensons ( q.v. ) and John Ellis , who succeeded the formidable George Hudson as Chairman of the Midland Railway Company . |
| 4 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 5 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 6 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 7 | upset the chairs of those who sold the sacrificial pigeons ; |
| 8 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 9 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |
| 10 | Debate on 16 November was enlivened by a passionate defence of the schema from the Bishop of Faenza who attacked the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute , of which Bea had been rector . |
| 11 | They introduced themselves as self-confessed leaders of the Maillotins , the French word for ‘ clubs ’ , a secret society of the Parisian poor who attacked the rich and earned their name from the huge cudgels they carried . |
| 12 | Indians and seringueiros alike had become the virtual slaves of the rubber barons and their descendants , who suppresed the indigenous people 's culture and kept the imported labourers in debt bondage . |
| 13 | For it was those two , with a little help from Nick Brown , Frew McMillan and John Black , who entertained the boisterous crowd with an exhibition set officially won by Brown and Keegan , 7–5 ! |
| 14 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 15 | The Co Down reader who asked the simple question is a mature driver with a modest car . |
| 16 | Selborne repeated this view to Churchill [ KP 3 ] , who asked the Foreign Secretary for his comments [ KP 5 ] . |
| 17 | His article sparked the interest of two Newsnight journalists , Gavin Esler and Martin Gregory , who asked the Foreign Office to give them a briefing . |
| 18 | It was Hilary Robarts who asked the obvious question , sounding as accusatory as a peevish wife . |
| 19 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 20 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 21 | THE NatWest bank last night offered a £25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men who kidnapped the elderly mother of one of its managers . |
| 22 | It was a classicist , no doubt , who translated the Latin-derived ‘ Perspex ’ into the Greek-derived ‘ Diakon ’ as the trade name for polymethyl methacrylate resins in particle form , which ICI introduced inn 1934 . |
| 23 | With the exception of Glastonbury , who produced the occasional ‘ Oh dear , I do n't know ’ sound , those present were also united on the general untrustworthiness of the late Trueman . |
| 24 | A special mention to Blainead Bergin who produced the culinary classics on Saturday and Sunday — it was simply delicious ! . . |
| 25 | It was not , however , Sir Tony Jacklin who produced the halved match , and the retained Ryder Cup , at The Belfry this year , although two of his players were Sandy Lyle MBE and Nick Faldo MBE . |
| 26 | Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't go out of your way to make a series , ’ said Peter Rogers , who produced the entire batch . |
| 28 | Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne . |
| 29 | Again and again , I hear people say that it is a pity that we who produced the great ideas of the world did not actually manufacture their consequences . |
| 30 | We do n't know , but there are at least 2.8 million Yugoslav families — those who produced the 1.4 million mixed marriages , mostly Croat-Serb , for whom the choice of an exclusive ethnic identity must be complex . |