Example sentences of "who [vb past] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To those who expressed alarm at the fact that Finland and Poland were already separating from Russia : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | PEOPLE WHO SAT OPEN-MOUTHED AT THE SIGHT OF BEAMON AND FOSBURY , WHO SHARED THE JOY OF KEINO AND THE AGONY OF RYAN . |