Example sentences of "who [vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many Northern Ireland Members who agreed with Labour Members and opposed the privatisation of Shorts and of Harland and Wolff would do so now ? |
| 2 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 3 | Mention has to be made of Julia Chapman 's singing of ‘ Joshua ’ , of the trio called Full Swing , who entertained with modern jazz in the foyer as the audience arrived and , inevitably , the Petersfield School Dance Band ( another happy family ) who set out feet a-dancing in the Rose Room after the concert . |
| 4 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 5 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 6 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 7 | He also had the confidence of the new king , George V , and of his two private secretaries , Francis , first Viscount Knollys , and Sir Arthur Bigge ( later Baron Stamfordham ) [ qq.v. ] , who disagreed with each other on the constitutional issue . |
| 8 | No.8 Colin McKenzie , who excelled with 40 tries for BC Old Boys last season , had three scores , including the pushover efforts , with the others claimed by wing Steve Gray and centre Ron Towes . |
| 9 | Prof Wilkie , who trained with Scottish Widows and who has also worked for Standard Life , is a partner of R Watson & Partners , the firm of consulting actuaries , and is an honorary visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 10 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 11 | This was a lady of 50 who came with chronic sinusitis , so severely blocked in fact that X-rays showed black over the frontal sinus . |
| 12 | What 's more , I knew people like a one-armed inside half — he 'd lost an arm in the First World War — who played with murderous brilliance for Caernarvon for years when I was a boy . |
| 13 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 14 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 15 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I congratulate the deceased 's son who acted with commendable promptness and courage and did everything possible to try to save his father 's life . ’ |
| 17 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 18 | The first exhibition in the new rooms is ‘ John Heartfield ’ , photomontages by the dadaist Berlin artist who commented with mordant satire on the Third Reich , which continues until 26 July ( see The Art Newspaper No. 12 , November 1991 , p.7 ) . |
| 19 | Benn collected the 12d fares from the royal party , who paid with specially-minted coins . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's polite of you to say that , but it 's a young man 's venture this — well , that 's not to call Fael-Inis a man precisely , and that 's meaning no disrespect either , ’ he added to Fael-Inis , who replied with grave courtesy , ‘ None in the world . ’ |
| 21 | Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle . |
| 22 | Samples from Hamanaka and Badastan , who returned with irregular heartbeats following their defeats at Leicester and Sandown last Thursday , have also proved negative . |
| 23 | POLICE today recaptured a ‘ dangerous ’ prisoner who escaped with three others from Edinburgh jail . |
| 24 | Zahir Shah , who escaped with minor wounds . |
| 25 | In the spring of 1942 , Major Gus March-Phillips , Major J. Geoffrey Appleyard , who served with 7 Commando in the autumn of 1940 , and Captain Graham Hayes had the SSRF in training at Wareham ( Dorset ) , where they did a lot of boat work , especially in dories . |
| 26 | Sailor Malan was one of many South Africans who served with great distinction in either the RFC or the RAF — including such names as Andrew Proctor VC , ‘ Boetie ’ Venter and S M Kinkead from World War I and ‘ Pat ’ Pattle , John Nettleton VC and Edwin Swaley VC from World War II . |
| 27 | Amongst the guests this year were two nonagenarians , Arthur Terry , a former superintending steward with Orient Line who retired in 1967 after 48 years ' service , and Captain William Solly who served with British India for 33 years and retired as a commander in 1960 . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't think I 'd be so nervous , ’ said Montana , who finished with 15 completions in 21 attempts for 126 yards . |
| 29 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 30 | I met a number of people at the consultation who concurred with that view . |