Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 2 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 3 | Edwin Stephenson , who played for Yorkshire between 1858 and 1873 , was one of the youngsters who spent many hours ‘ pegging ’ away , bowling at Sampson on the Broomhall pitch . |
| 4 | Born deaf , and educated partly at the Langside Institution , Glasgow and partly at William Van Praagh 's Oral School in London , George Edward was a fine designer of silver cups , challenge shields and the like , and also a fine yachtsman who won many trophies in his racing yachts Osprey and Majel . |
| 5 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 6 | A Qatari son of a Qatari Sheikh who had many falcons . |
| 7 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |
| 8 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 9 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 10 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 11 | But Mackenzie was greatly missed as his devoted service to deaf people was universally acknowledged , and he was a man of great charm and Christian virtue who had many friends among the deaf community . |
| 12 | The John Motum Plate was named in recognition of the current assistant treasurer of the RFU who spent many years as general secretary of Colchester . |
| 13 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |