Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who succeeded Herod the Great as ruler of Judaea ? |
| 2 | One contained the tomb of one of Bosnia 's most famous sons , Serhad Pasha Sokolovic , a Christian convert to Islam who became Suleiman the Magnificent 's grand vizier . |
| 3 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 5 | Miss Kavner , 41 , who played Brenda the sister in Rhoda , also appeared in Woody Allen 's Hannah And Her Sisters . |
| 6 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 7 | The woman used a spare key to open the back door , retrieved the telephone and called the police who arrested Smith the next day . |
| 8 | The goal that decided the contest came after 35 minutes from a Paul Wilkinson header , but the man who tormented Ipswich the most was roving raider John Hendrie . |
| 9 | It was the Metropolitan Makarii who nurtured Ivan the Terrible 's hugely inflated notion of his office , and who prepared the dramatic ceremony which saw him crowned in 1547 not as mere Grand Prince but as unfettered ‘ Tsar ’ ( derived from ‘ Caesar ’ ) . |
| 10 | And who was the bruiser who gave Kirk the big headache ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm on the verge of being one meself , child , if I had the name of that person who gave Lizzy the drugs I 'd scalp the face off them . ’ |
| 12 | Even Frank Williams , who gave Mansell the fresh start he craved in 1985 , believed he had signed no more than a ‘ journeyman ’ , who would serve as a useful number two driver . |
| 13 | Paul , 39 , who gave Alexander the kiss of life at Wick , Mid-Glamorgan , said : ‘ He was fading fast . ’ |
| 14 | Duncan Lee , at scrum-half , took a quick tap penalty , driven on by John Ainslie who gave Witchard the scoring pass . |
| 15 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 16 | ‘ He almost certainly was the one who gave Joanna the personal alarm which she was carrying , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Diana , who dubbed Camilla the Rottweiler , no longer cares . |