Example sentences of "who [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 2 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 3 | The country is divided into nine regions and in each of these we have someone or in some cases two people , who represents us in the regional Standing Conference of Sport and Recreation , and also on the Movement and Dance Liaison Group or Association . |
| 4 | He is the one who represents us before his heavenly Father . |
| 5 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |
| 6 | He gave land to Chad at Barrow in Lindsey for the building of a monastery ( HE IV , 3 ) , and when Chad died Wynfrith , who succeeded him as bishop , was evidently abbot of Barrow ( HE IV , 6 ) . |
| 7 | In the early 1640s Best compiled an account of his farming methods and other country matters , such as ‘ the fashions att our Country weddings ’ , for the benefit of his son , John ( 1620–69 ) , who succeeded him as lord of the manor . |
| 8 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 9 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |
| 10 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 11 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 12 | This was the beginning of a family association with the School which was to last until 1942 , when his son , who succeeded him in 1898 , retired . |
| 13 | He was survived by his wife Anne , daughter and heir of Richard Comport , of Eltham , and a son Comport ( born 1676 ) , who succeeded him in the baronetcy . |
| 14 | His son Rolf , who disowned him after failing to extract any signs of remorse from him , visited him in 1977 . |
| 15 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 16 | In the early pages of the Old Testament , Joseph was cruelly treated by his brothers , who sold him into slavery . |
| 17 | Swinton , who sold him to Widnes for only £7,500 in January last year , would like him back . |
| 18 | Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself . |
| 19 | These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you . |
| 20 | It was then acquired by Wally McDonnel of Mojave , California , who sold it to Elmer Ward in the mid 1970s . |
| 21 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 22 | If you find some if you realize you 've bought something and it 's faulty return it to the shop who sold it to you as soon as you can . |
| 23 | Oddly enough , I had been interested in it three or four years ago when it was on the market prior to being bought by the lady who sold it to me . |
| 24 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 25 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 26 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 27 | Before completing her payments and therefore before the car was hers , she sold it to B. B sold it to C , who sold it to Kingsway Motors , who in turn sold it to Butterworth . |
| 28 | A few years later , however , it passed into the ownership of Lord Gerald of Brandon , who sold it in 1682 , to the Speaker of the House of Commons , Sir Edward Seymour . |
| 29 | Ramos , a Protestant , was criticized on Feb. 18 by the influential ( Catholic ) Archbishop of Manila , Cardinal Jaime Sin , who attacked him as a former Marcos stooge and expressed his preference for Mitra , thus denting Ramos ' dwindling support within the LDP . |
| 30 | An unnamed 21-year-old man was beaten unconscious by a group of thugs who attacked him with sticks . |