Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 2 | There was the redoubtable Mary O'Keefe — daughter of the famous sea-captain who became known as King O'Keefe of the South Seas . |
| 3 | After Muhammads death a schism developed between those ( who became known as Sunnis ) and the followers of Ali ( the Shiites , from Shi'a Ali , or party of Ali ) . |
| 4 | Although there is no direct evidence that officials at the judicial secretariat in Colombo accepted bribes for dismissing or weakening criminal cases prosecuted in the superior courts , there were persons who claimed to act as agents for such transactions . |
| 5 | Over the years WACC has given scholarships to persons who needed training as documentalists . |
| 6 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
| 7 | Those arrested included Yoshihiko Kawamura , who had served as Itoman 's president until his dismissal earlier in 1991 . |
| 8 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 9 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 10 | Furthermore , Attlee inherited a highly efficient Whitehall war machine , with a variety and quality of machine-minder unparalleled in the history of the British Civil Service ( though most of the gifted outsiders who had served as wartime temporaries would soon depart ) . |
| 11 | Overall responsibility for ideology and foreign policy was to pass to José Ramón Balaguer , who had served as Cuba 's ambassador to the former Soviet Union , while responsibility for culture went to politburo member María de los Angeles García . |
| 12 | According to official accounts of the events of Nov. 13 , the conspiracy was organized by three retired army generals — Jaime Salinas Sedo , José Pastor Vives and Luis Palomino Rodríguez , who had served as heads of the military household during the previous García government . |
| 13 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |
| 14 | The former , who had served as mayor of San Francisco , defeated the Republican incumbent John Seymour , who had been appointed by Governor Pete Wilson in 1990 to serve the remainder of his ( Wilson 's ) term . |
| 15 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 16 | Criticism of Cossiga for heading the movement for constitutional reform in favour of an executive presidency had come not just from the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS-formerly the Communist Party ) but also from within the Christian Democratic ( DC ) party , notably from former Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , and from Ettore Gallo , who had retired as President of the Constitutional Court in July . |
| 17 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 18 | When the court resumed at 2.30 , Mr John Lawrence , who had acted as stage manager at Reading , gave some inconsequential evidence which inferred that Drew was a violent man and also that a gun had gone missing from the stage props . |
| 19 | The Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , the party with closest links to President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya , was led by Sid Ahmed Ould Baba , who had resigned as Minister of Interior , Posts and Communications in July . |
| 20 | Fresh elections here would be contested on Oct. 11 , and the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 9 reported that 26 candidates had come forward , including Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in late August in protest at the elections . |
| 21 | Among those elected was Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in August in protest at the elections . |
| 22 | Spanish press comment detected in the handling of the affair an ongoing struggle between Prime Minister and PSOE secretary-general Felipe González and supporters of Alfonso Guerra , who had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1991 but continued as PSOE deputy secretary-general [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 23 | Tun Daim Zainuddin , who had resigned as Finance Minister on March 15 , was appointed on Aug. 29 to a ministerial-level post as leader of the Malaysian delegation in talks on setting up a " northern growth triangle " with Indonesia and Thailand to develop economic relations between Malaysia 's northern states , northern Sumatra and southern Thailand . |
| 24 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |