Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eardwulf 's adultery was in fact potentially serious because he became estranged from Eanbald ( II ) , archbishop of York , who succeeded his namesake in 796 . |
| 2 | Thomas Martyn , son of John Martyn and who succeeded his father as Professor of Botany at Cambridge , summarised these in the Preface of his revised edition of the Dictionary , published in 1807 . |
| 3 | The first expedition , under the king himself , was to sail to Flanders ; the second , under the Earl of Northampton , was to go to Brittany ; and the third and largest was despatched to Aquitaine under the command of the Earl of Derby , who succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster in that year . |
| 4 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 5 | Yet this burgeoning proved short-lived , barely continuing into the early years of the reign of Hirohito , the new Shówa emperor , who succeeded his father in 1926 . |
| 6 | This is a case of adding injury to insult — it was originally the cat 's job to kill the mice and the rodent-poisoners who usurped its role are not content merely with making it obsolete , but are also assaulting it physically in this underhand , prey-concealed way . |
| 7 | Traditionally , Microsoft has concentrated on creating products — and left the courting of customers to its dealers or to the computer makers who sold its DOS operating system with their machines . |
| 8 | Not too complicated , it would seem , for the 3.4 million shareholders who sold their electricity distribution company shares within two months of their issue . |
| 9 | In some instances these products were grown by peasants who sold their produce to local traders who in turn supplied urban merchants and exporters . |
| 10 | He knew it was coming because the girl who sold her story to Playboy magazine in America and the Sunday Mirror in London — British model and actress Karen Mayo-Chandler — warned him . |
| 11 | AN IRISHMAN who sold his family furniture for £600 was counting the cost today after Christie 's this week auctioned the same furniture for £230,000 . |
| 12 | Mr Coskun Yenici , aged 28 , who sold his kidney for £3,000 to finance medical treatment for his father , had to carry the other donor , Mrs Hatice Anutkan , out of the Wellington Humana hospital after the surgery last November . |
| 13 | Thunders is another ‘ hero ’ who sold his soul to rock ‘ n ’ roll . |
| 14 | Eric , who sold his house for the venture , is the resident caretaker , and plans to turn the house into a base for fellow trainspotters are under way . |
| 15 | But for the most part he was , in Lewis 's eyes , an ‘ idle prig ’ who wasted his time cultivating well-born families and pretty boys and visiting exotic churches . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the device proved inadequate to deter the thieves who attacked our vehicle . |
| 17 | He was the man who attacked our Tamar . ’ |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal has increased the jail term on a father who attacked his baby daughter from four years to six years . |
| 19 | A switchboard operator who asked its location was sneeringly told : ‘ That 's for you to find out . ’ |
| 20 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 21 | The group lobbied Liam Kavanagh , Minister for the Environment , who asked his department to test water , air and soil in the area . |
| 22 | ‘ It is they who asked my help . ’ |
| 23 | I said you 're more naive than what I thought cos he hates , he hates me and vice versa , and he said er , who asked your opinion ? |
| 24 | Census-takers have already trudged across Alaskan snow to count the Aleuts and Eskimos who quit their winter villages when the spring comes . |
| 25 | However , Mrs Barlow , who quit her partnership with Peter Clowes in 1978 , was said to have left Britain . |
| 26 | A GIRL Friday who quit her job because she could not trust her boss to leave her alone was yesterday awarded £2,390 for sex discrimination . |
| 27 | Mrs Cann , 25 , who quit her job at the Unilift forklift company in Rumney , Cardiff , after two years , said : ‘ I could n't take it any more . |
| 28 | A YOUNG council worker , who quit his job to see the world with his fiancee , died in a boating accident yesterday . |
| 29 | Simon , who quit his job as an estate agent , begins a one-year accountancy course in Newcastle upon Tyne today . |
| 30 | A TEENAGE mother who stabbed her daughter to death after giving birth because she was too terrified to seek help , walked free from a court yesterday . |