Example sentences of "[noun prp] who [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous incumbent Dick Corden , who watched Quakers ' game at Peterborough on Saturday , resigned a fortnight ago , leaving only two directors Richard Tonks and John Brockbank who met several times last week in an effort to solve the club 's financial crisis . |
| 2 | ‘ To the memory of Leopold Thomas Rice Dersingham who departed this life 12 July 1942 in the 18th year of his life . |
| 3 | Needs some help and gets it from Thomson who started this move off and lifted in towards Agnew , Cooper clears it still has n't gone out and er Phillips just prevented it I think going for a corner , yes it 's a throw . |
| 4 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 5 | It was Simon who gave that impression behind my back . |
| 6 | In every other case , Noble Lord er , er , erm there were then three Noble Lords , er Lord Wrenton , Lord Elton and Lord Boyd-Carpenter who urged this question on the Government er Lord er Elton specifically er er er preferred appointment to co-option er but he also preferred erm a local authority majority on , on the poli police authority . |
| 7 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 8 | " Madam Kitten , Madam Katherine Lundy who ran this house until Easter week , three years ago . |
| 9 | I should explain first why it was Alec Davidson who exposed these mysteries to me . |
| 10 | In a similar vein , Clara Malraux who spent several months in the company of Nizan in Moscow in 1934 , recalls that Nizan 's hopes for the creation of " new values " , a " new man " in Soviet society were not fulfilled : " It seemed to us that the new man had not yet emerged " . |
| 11 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't know whether it was the NIO or someone within the Maze who took this decision . |
| 13 | It was in the nature of a goodwill invitation , nothing more , none of us realising that he was the one man in Punta Arenas who had some idea of why an old wooden-walled East Indiaman , built like a frigate , should have been reconditioned and brought south by the Argentine Navy during the war . |
| 14 | The tall , dark-haired girl had prepared the way for me , and I said ‘ Now let us all kneel , and cry to that same Jesus who spoke those words , ’ and down on their knees they fell every one of them , reverently , on that damp stone floor , some saying the words after me , others moaning and weeping . |
| 15 | These girls were all Parmigiane who knew each other . |
| 16 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 17 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 18 | In the event it was not going to be Auguste who gave this information but Naseby 's own sergeant , who burst in with the news that the Cowes harbour master had telephoned to announce the arrival of the yacht Osborne with the Prince of Wales aboard . |
| 19 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 20 | But it was Bob Calder who assumed that role . |
| 21 | In this aspect she is linked , as I mentioned in Chapter One , with Harriet Finlay Johnson who attached more importance to content than any pioneers since . |
| 22 | Now , was it you Lyn who had some statistics some saying er , what proportion |
| 23 | there 'll be a minutes silence before that cup match tomorrow in memory of Gloucester club secretary Terry Tandy who died this week at the age of 57 … he served the club for twenty five years … he was a cherry and white through and through |
| 24 | In a way this was a compromise between the people in Britain who wanted more sugar and the established planters in the West Indies who would find the additional competition of new sugar colonies entirely unwelcome . |
| 25 | For example , Miguez Bonino who inaugurated this series of lectures , talked of his own personal discovery of ‘ the unsubstitutable relevance of Marxism ’ and went on to argue that it must be taken seriously because ‘ it offers a scientific , verifiable and efficacious way to articulate love historically ’ . |
| 26 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 27 | King Bucar ordered his tents to be pitched round about Valencia , and Abenalfarax who wrote this history in Arabic , saith , that there were full fifteen thousand tents ; and he bade that Moorish negress with her archers to take their station near the city . |
| 28 | As Darren Bailey who introduced this chapter pointed out , it is no good simply putting a pretty gloss on the environment , the solutions require more than ‘ spendin' a few thousand on the Town Centre plantin' all trees ‘ n ’ things ' . |
| 29 | But the people who built them — the thirty or forty people possibly at the most in Oxford who built those houses — it would solve their problems and it would give them a completely new slant on life to have built their own houses . |
| 30 | It may have been the Marquess of Atholl who planned these works ; he had inherited the estates in 1670 . |