Example sentences of "who [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More characteristic was the active Louis VI of France , who succeeded on the whole in being a successful king , but only by the most strenuous activity . |
| 2 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 3 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |
| 4 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 5 | In the ninth century the monks ( who lived on the south side ) built the more southerly of the two towers which still adorn the church , and from this tower the bells summoned the faithful to attend their masses and to make their contributions to the monks ' support . |
| 6 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 7 | It was here that Arthur fought and killed the giant Ritho , a fierce character who lived on the slopes of the mountain and wore a cloak made from the beards of chiefs he had slain . |
| 8 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 9 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 10 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 12 | Araminta had been driven to the celebrations in the gig by Adam Diggory , scorning Benedict 's escort , and Mrs Diggory had been permitted to accompany them so that she might visit her mother , who lived on the Switham estates . |
| 13 | The intervention followed several weeks of fighting between rival Indian factions armed with automatic weapons and grenades , which resulted in the deaths of at least two people , the displacement of many of the 9,500 who lived on the reservation , and the infliction of serious material damage . |
| 14 | The current Russian President Boris Yeltsin was expected to face vigorous local opposition to any acceptance of Japanese sovereignty , from 47,000 Russian citizens ( 20,000 of whom were military personnel ) who lived on the islands , a source of precious metals and with rich fishing grounds . |
| 15 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 16 | Importantly , this document does not refer to Louis Hotteterre , the brother of Nicolas ( dit Colin ) , who lived on the rue Marmousets in the parish of Ste Marie Magdelaine , but to the Louis whom I first identified in an earlier article : a letter written in 1712 by the French oboist Louis Rousselet mentions that he had left a musette for repair with Louis Hotteterre , who lived ‘ proche le Pon [ sic ] Marie ’ . |
| 17 | It was true however that Doris Smythe , an elderly widow who lived on the opposite side of their suburban road in a small rented house , did n't like too much bustle around her . |
| 18 | Sommerville , of Redburn , Bonhill , Dunbartonshire , admitted stabbing and murdering Mr Friel , who lived on the same estate , in the local shopping centre on 30 October last . |
| 19 | There was a lavatory in the garden — no grass — which we shared with an Irish family who lived on the floor above us . |
| 20 | Brown approached Altman , who pounced on the opportunity . |
| 21 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 22 | Yet others fought and identified with a plethora of socialist and anarchist groups who fought on the Aragon front , in the defence of Madrid , and at the battle of Jarama in February 1937 . |
| 23 | It is true that Spain 's only military contribution to the fighting was the despatch of volunteers ( the " Blue Division " ) who fought on the Russian front as part of the German Army , and that Spain did not declare war on any country . |
| 24 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 25 | Some pupils who failed on the first occasion might subsequently succeed because of increasing insight into a concept or because a skill has been practised . |
| 26 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 27 | Actually it was an English friend of Van Halen 's who passed on the tapes to them . |
| 28 | One of the shunters who rode on the engine then alighted , went down the train to connect up the vacuum pipes known to the railwaymen as vacuum bags . |
| 29 | Historically , this problem was best appreciated by those Idealist philosophers ( eg T H Green ) who sought on the basis of a theory of self-realisation to provide a moral foundation for liberal politics . |
| 30 | They 're right bastards who cheated on the materials … ’ |