Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that it was built as a chantry chapel in memory of Robert de Tattershall who died in 1121 . |
| 2 | His stay was brief , for in 1950 it was sold to the West Midlands Farmers Association who remained until 1974 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 5 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 6 | Those Shias who escaped into southern Iran are housed in transit camps around Khorramshahr and the other main points of entry ( see map on previous page ) . |
| 7 | Today 's prayer was written by St Richard of Chichester who lived from 1197 to 1253 . |
| 8 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 9 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 10 | He thought that any Special Agent who dressed like this guy would be disciplined . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Political officers would be attached to units who worked in close co-operation with line officers . |
| 13 | In a report published on Aug. 5 the human rights group Amnesty International ( AI ) cited a witness who spoke of mass executions and human rights abuses in the inter-clan conflicts of recent months , and said that this report was consistent with others received by AI . |
| 14 | The provision of bed covers , curtains , pelmets , chair covers and furniture were all co-ordinated by the contracts department who liaised with other manufacturers . |
| 15 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Roberto Salazar Manrique , an economist , was named as Colombia 's new justice minister , replacing Monica de Greiff who resigned after repeated death threats by drug traffickers . |
| 16 | The dead King had been a lecher who lusted after other men 's wives , daughters , sisters , like a dog on heat . |
| 17 | There was , however , one troubling group inherited from the Roman past , which remained a permanent feature of the social landscape of Western Europe : the Jews who existed in most Roman towns , in large numbers or small . |
| 18 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 19 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 20 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 21 | My daughter was intrigued by the statue-like posture of members of the Household Guards who stood at strategic points en route , not moving an eyelid . |
| 22 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 23 | The aims of this study were : ( a ) to explore the distinguishing clinical characteristics between the patients with three types of amyloidosis who presented with clinical signs of intestinal pseudo-obstruction , and ( b ) to examine the relations between the clinical features and pathological findings . |
| 24 | Between 1978 and 1992 , we saw 17 patients with amyloidosis who presented with clinical signs of intestinal obstruction . |
| 25 | This can only be done , of course , with authors who lived within modern categorizations of sexuality — but that period , after all , does include the entire history of the cinema . |
| 26 | Picture then the annual visit through the village of the ‘ Plough Lads ’ — local lads who appeared with blackened faces . |
| 27 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 28 | Acia is a little man with merry eyes who taught in different parts of Ethiopia until 1980 . |
| 29 | The hero again was Newcastle goalkeeper Tommy Wright who brought off three superb saves at crucial stages of the second half while Dowie 's goal , his second in international football , was impressively taken . |
| 30 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |