Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 2 | It seemed easier to do right by a people who wanted nothing than by peoples who clamoured for what you were not at all sure you wanted to give them . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON manager Frank Gray says he sympathises with fans who called for his dismissal after Saturday 's home defeat . |
| 4 | Other examples of continuity , in the north west include the Redmanes of Levens , who also held land in Yorkshire and were feed by both Warwick and Gloucester from Middleham , and probably the Dogets of Grayrigg who fought for Warwick in 1469 and subsequently provided Richard with a chaplain . |
| 5 | Other examples of continuity , in the north west include the Redmanes of Levens , who also held land in Yorkshire and were feed by both Warwick and Gloucester from Middleham , and probably the Dogets of Grayrigg who fought for Warwick in 1469 and subsequently provided Richard with a chaplain . |
| 6 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 7 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 8 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 9 | Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two . |
| 10 | Alfred Taban , a Sudanese journalist who worked for Reuters and the BBC , was also arrested in early April . |
| 11 | He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support . |
| 12 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 13 | When they wanted to stop the investment programme , it was managing director Malcolm Cotton who fought for the idea . |
| 14 | She is the 21-year-old actress from Grange Hill who went for an audition with Mr Winner , and , seven months after he had had his way with her on a regular basis , got dumped . |
| 15 | Shelley was a poet who spoke for the people . |
| 16 | J. S. Homes , the National Liberal MP for Harwich , made an early visit , closely followed by the mayor who arranged for the town band to give a concert . |
| 17 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 18 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 19 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 20 | But in the end he was toppled by these very same foreigners who had for so long manipulate Iranian life . |
| 21 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 22 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 23 | Nickel was affected in 1989 by sharp cuts in orders from stainless steel manufacturers who accounted for almost 60 per cent of its consumption . |
| 24 | The final phrase carried a suggestion that they might be willing to fight for the League , but it seems unlikely that this thought had crossed the minds of many of the young gentlemen who voted for it . |
| 25 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 26 | Over 800 Libyans who sailed for Naples in a former cruise liner to mark the 78th anniversary on Oct. 26 of the invasion of Libya by Italy in 1911 , were not allowed to disembark ; however , a group of some 250 Libyans visited the Italian island of Ustica for a commemorative ceremony . |
| 27 | LAURA DAVIES produced a marvellous exhibition for those loyal supporters who opted for Stoke Poges rather than nearby Wentworth , with a round of 64 in the second round of the Laing Charity Classic yesterday . |
| 28 | The directors understand they have a credibility problem with the supporters who called for the sacking of the board at the end of last week 's drawn home game with Partick Thistle . |
| 29 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 30 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |