Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun] 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 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 9 | Mackay is a Scot who came south at the request of Mrs Thatcher following the resignation of Lord Havers due to ill health in 1987 . |
| 10 | Back at the Noones ' , I enjoyed a snack in the front room , in the company of the good-looking teenage Noones , curly-headed Martin ( or ‘ Murt ’ ) and his pink-cheeked sister , a wholesome girl who played guitar at the Folk Mass . |
| 11 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was explicitly cited as a rationale for the sentence in the 1991 case of Marcus Serjeant , an unemployed teenager who fired blanks at the Queen during the Trooping the Colour ceremony . |
| 14 | Although tests had not been completed it seemed probable that the infection was contracted during surgery and a junior member of the surgical team had been identified as a carrier who began work at the hospital in last May . |
| 15 | To those who expressed alarm at the fact that Finland and Poland were already separating from Russia : |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | AT LEAST four buildings will have to be demolished and rebuilt , including the Baltic Exchange Chambers and the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange , according to Corporation of London surveyors , who examined buildings at the weekend . |
| 18 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rather , it is to agree with his conclusion that , while for the articulate elite , like the artisans who constituted the Owenite membership of the National Union of Working Classes and Others and who debated reform at the London Rotunda , the kind of reform they wanted — annual parliaments , universal suffrage and the ballot — was just what Grey expressly denied . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Like all ages , the late Middle Ages had its critics who took swipes at the activities of soldiers . |
| 24 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 25 | The defendant , who gave evidence at the trial , also denied that he had confessed to Zaidie and further denied that he had ever made any threats against Paulette , as alleged by Zaidie and Matadial . |
| 26 | Amongst those who gave evidence at the trial was Senator Edward Kennedy , Smith 's uncle , who had initiated the drinking expedition which had led to Smith 's encounter with Bowman . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Steve Smith , who won gold at the World Junior Championships in Seoul , beat off the challenge of Olympic bronze medallist Steve Backley to claim the award as Male Field Athlete of the Year . |
| 29 | The article was by Percy Hoskins , the greatest Commissioners of Police and thieves and villains , who drank champagne at the Caprice , had an apartment in park lane , was an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook , yet kept the common touch . |
| 30 | The clinical features of the two groups as well as the subgroups in group A — that is , those who had calculi at the time sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed and those who developed calculi after sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed , are shown in Table I. Because of the similarities between the two subgroups in group A , they are hereafter referred to as one group . |