Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Mr Chairman , I think er , you know , it 's all right putting forward a budget like this , but there 's only one person who got paid for it , and that 's the general public . |
| 2 | A holy man who 'd prepared for his death , who might even , perhaps , have welcomed it . |
| 3 | The Judge , Mr Justice De Cunha said Mr Hayward had been an exemplary husband who 'd cared for his wife around the clock . |
| 4 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 5 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 6 | Then there was a big cheer from the 18th and we thought it was Nicklaus who 'd holed for a birdie . |
| 7 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 8 | Patients were invited to participate by letter and those who consented attended for outpatient review . |
| 9 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 10 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 11 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 12 | Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises . |
| 13 | In July the authorities arrested two leading opponents of the government , Charles Rubia and Kenneth Matiba , who had called for a referendum on the future of one-party rule ; in subsequent protest riots 20 people died [ see p. 37603 ] . |
| 14 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 15 | In a sharp exchange through the media on Oct. 12-13 Poltoranin accused Khasbulatov , who had called for his resignation , of " surrounding himself in the Supreme Soviet apparatus with exiles from the former party structures " . |
| 16 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 17 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 18 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 19 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 20 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 21 | More significantly the direction of change was viewed suspiciously by young intellectuals who had hoped for the realisation of the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 22 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 23 | The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures . |
| 24 | The news came as a crushing blow to the cast and production team on the £10million set in Spain who had hoped for a reprieve after a recent upturn in viewing figures . |
| 25 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 26 | There was the suspicion , too , that it was he who had arranged for us to be followed on our arrival in Lima , may even have planned our death by that gully on the old road up to the pass . |
| 27 | It could only be someone who had gone for a marathon walk or a solitary picnicker who had lain down and fallen asleep . |
| 28 | The latter was one of Captain Buck 's SIG men , a Palestinian Jew who had served for several years in the German army . |
| 29 | The applicant , who was strongly connected to the voters of Angus , sought Panmure 's assistance to obtain a post of inspector of customs for his son , Robert Fullerton , who had served for five years as clerk of the customs and had acted as inspector when some of these officers were under suspension . |
| 30 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |