Example sentences of "who [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Boesky , who agreed to co-operate with prosecutors following his arrest in 1986 , was largely responsible for the conviction of former junk bond king Michael Milken , currently appealing against a 10-year jail term . |
| 2 | The Pilgrims of Grace , who planned to march to London to compel Henry VIII to spare the monasteries , went to Jervaulx to ask the abbot to join them . |
| 3 | This publication contained detailed descriptions of persons who failed to appear at court to answer a criminal charge . |
| 4 | I would expect someone who claimed to believe in ghosts to give some evidence for their existence , and it is reasonable to expect the theist to give evidence for God 's existence . |
| 5 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 6 | Spreadsheets used to provide the vital function of allowing people who had to juggle with figures to do so , achieve their answers , and print out seemingly interminable reams of numbers in columns and rows . |
| 7 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 8 | How would I know this Marie Savigny was secretly a member of the de Montfort coven , who wanted to come to England to plot mischief , perhaps even murder ? |