Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun prp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Jenkins , who succeeded Callaghan at the Exchequer after the enforced devaluation of November 1967 , persuaded Wilson formally to bury the DEA cadaver in 1969 . |
| 2 | Such were the troops who fought Alexander at the Granikos . |
| 3 | The project was overseen and produced by Ramuntcho Matta , who has studied classical composition , Indian vocal techniques and the tango , and who met Gysin at the age of 15 . |
| 4 | A friend who visited Brenda at the couple 's £325,000 mansion at Shenfield , Essex , said : ‘ We all have the impression that she wants the marriage to survive . |
| 5 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 6 | It was George who encouraged Lucy at the start of her career — a career that began with a typewriter on the kitchen table at the couple 's council house in Derby . |
| 7 | Would any of the people who jeered Sinead at the Bob Dylan Concert in New York have the bottle to go on live prime-time TV , to criticise her ? |
| 8 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 9 | Benjamin Rhodes is exhibiting new sculptures of household objects by Zadok Ben-David ( to 13 June ) , who represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988 . |
| 10 | The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans . |
| 11 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors . |
| 12 | Drummer Simon Smith , who replaced Charman at the beginning of 1988 , deals with much of the tedious organisation like booking hotels and ferries , sorting out transport to and from concerts , and driving . |
| 13 | In March 1679 he was appointed one of the five commissioners who replaced Danby at the Treasury , an appointment he held until his death . |