Example sentences of "who [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider also Hawthorn 's assessment of Ginsberg , who succeeded to Hobhouse 's Chair : |
| 2 | The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’ |
| 3 | Hence the puzzle : the biggest and most immediate beneficiaries of the takeover boom of the 1980s — that is , those shareholders who sold to bidders — were retired Americans , present and future . |
| 4 | Lee was the one who sold to Simon . |
| 5 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |
| 6 | There may be a further indication of this dissatisfaction in Gregory 's account of the interrogation in 585 of two of Gundovald 's envoys , who revealed to Guntram under torture that all the nobility of Childebert 's kingdom had offered Gundovald the crown . |
| 7 | In defence of church liberties Pecham also decreed at Reading that Magna Carta was to be posted in every cathedral and collegiate church in the land and expounded in every parish church each Sunday ; violators , particularly those who resorted to writs of prohibition , or seized or wasted church property , or neglected to arrest unreconciled offenders when required to do so , were to be excommunicated . |
| 8 | BOGOTA ( Agencies ) — A leading member of the Medellin cocaine cartel who resorted to plastic surgery to avoid arrest has been captured and will face extradition to the United States , the Colombian authorities said yesterday . |
| 9 | It was Cenwealh who recommended to Ealhfrith c . |
| 10 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
| 11 | They were passing through pleasant country — hunting country , she knew , with open tracts of undulating land among the cultivated fields , offering a good many jumps and lengthy runs for the hardy spirits who rode to hounds . |
| 12 | ( Some , who got to America , conveniently forgot their pledge . ) |
| 13 | SL2 , who got to No 2 with On A Raggatip ; and SUNSCREEM , who enjoyed a Top 30 hit last month with Love U More . |
| 14 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | The attitude of many who object to children in pubs is not dissimilar to those who objected to women in men-only bars and pubs in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration . |
| 17 | NEW YORK — A British effort to bring the international drug trade before the UN Security Council has been balked by Brazil and Algeria , who objected to Britain 's plan to include the drug trade in its definition of threats to international peace and security . |
| 18 | The scheme faced criticism from orthodox Liberals , who objected to compulsion , and from a variety of sources in the trade union movement . |
| 19 | ( Graves 's book , presumably , was too opaque for the self-appointed custodians of thought who objected to Michele Roberts . |
| 20 | I have never met anyone who objected to capitalism because it relied on the freedom of the individual to buy and sell , to produce and innovate , to save and invest . |
| 21 | men who proposed to Jane . |
| 22 | The keynote speaker was Mr. Ian Lang , Scottish Education Minister , who used to occasion to highlight many of the current important issues in vocational education in Scotland . |
| 23 | Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so . |
| 24 | It was occupied by the Fry family — the eldest son was Sergeant Major of St. Martin 's Church Lads Brigade who used to camp out in bell tents at Shady Bower during the summer months . |
| 25 | Ultimately he hopes to return with his wife and infant son Jamie to Aberdeenshire where his father — who used to captain Cambridge at hockey — runs a small farm . |
| 26 | 25–11 Dr St. Clair , who used to practice in Islay before he went to Blackpool , was the guest of J. C. Graham at Lagavulin . |
| 27 | The final Liturgy of recommissioning was introduced by Sr. Susan , who referred to Isaiah 's theme of goodness of the Lord past , present and future . |
| 28 | The ‘ irresistibility theory ’ fits with the views of early German ornithologists who referred to foster-parents as behaving like ‘ addicts ’ and to the cuckoo nestling as their ‘ vice , . |
| 29 | The ideal grew out of one man 's initiative and people who referred to Sir Matt Busby as a visionary did so without hesitation because , of all the titles bestowed upon him , none appeared to be more appropriate . |
| 30 | The journal quoted a Hong Kong-based Chinese Foreign Ministry official who referred to Article 55 of the Basic Law , Hong Kong 's post-1997 constitution approved in 1990 by the Chinese legislature [ see p. 37376 ] . |