Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Alan Mattingly of the Ramblers ' Association ( RA ) described the decision as ‘ a slap in the face by Prince Charles to the National Parks Review Panel who recommended only last March that live firing should be removed from national parks as quickly as possible . ’
2 The 11 tourists , with a lot of help from the four friends who made up last night 's team , gave an astounding display to inflict on France their first defeat here for seven years .
3 His former boss , Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , who fled abroad last week after he came under investigation for fraud , gave himself up yesterday in West Berlin , police said .
4 Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first .
5 I just , Birmingham Region , I think the delegate who came up second about long service ambulance staff and the going down .
6 Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers .
7 Anti-Clinton sentiments were manifest among voters in New York , where six out of 10 supported either former Senator Paul Tsongas , who came in second even though he is no longer running , or the fiery populism of third-placed Jerry Brown .
8 But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream .
9 It was she who turned away first and when she rested her arm against the wall to support the linen whilst she put the key in the lock , he came forward , saying eagerly , ‘ Let me . ’
10 ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds .
11 THE career of David Loder , who started off last season with just two winners , has really taken off in 1993 and the Newmarket trainer looks set to reach his half-century this month .
12 Who went in first ?
13 Jean-Paul Riopelle 's encrusted abstraction is — what can I say ? — promising , and there are standard works by Poliakoff , Georges Mathieu , Hans Hartung ( who died only last week ) and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva .
14 He replaces Alistair Scholes , who died suddenly last month while representing the council at an energy conference in the Canaries .
15 A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out .
16 The 31-year-old British No.1 , who put out seventh seed Michael Chang en route to the fourth round 12 months ago , opens against Argentinian clay court specialist Javier Frana , ranked just above him in the world at 87 .
17 IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year .
18 Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job .
19 Y CYRFF : ‘ Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe ’ Welsh language guitar group who split up last year issue 22-track compilation spanning their eight-year career — out now
20 — their fear of being burned alive on a barbecue like the young slave who ran away last week and was caught and tried and sentenced to death by this method
21 Those who stayed away last night missed Northern Ireland making history by completing a hat-trick of World Cup victories for the first time .
22 Situated on a hillside surrounded by woods , the Jelenice is close to the lake ( about 5/6 minutes walk away ) and was particularly well liked by our clients who stayed there last summer for its warm and friendly atmosphere created without doubt by a dedicated management and staff .
23 He succeeds Patrick Gilbert who retired early last year .
24 Botham , who set out last Friday on the 22-day hike from Land 's End to Margate , is already suffering for his efforts — a deep-seated blister is causing untold pain .
25 That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ?
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