Example sentences of "who [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them — or , more accurately , forming a triangle with them — is an eighth-magnitude star , named Sidus Ludovicianum in 1723 by courtiers of the Emperor Ludwig V , who believed that it had appeared suddenly . |
| 2 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 3 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 4 | Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer . |
| 5 | The property in the car was later put into a van and found by the police who discovered that it had been stolen in the burglary . |
| 6 | Newport in Shropshire was ‘ new ’ in the twelfth century when it was granted a charter by Henry I , who required that it supply fish to the royal household from its medieval fish-pond . |
| 7 | The mock election has been organised by Mr Ian Gerrard , a history master , chairman of the Literary and Debating Society and returning officer , who confessed that it had been a bit of a ‘ sleazy ’ campaign . |
| 8 | The doctrine of scientific determinism was strongly resisted by many people , who felt that it infringed God 's freedom to intervene in the world , but it remained the standard assumption of science until the early years of this century . |
| 9 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 10 | Darman 's claim that this would save $47,000 million on social spending over the next five years drew a sceptical response from opposition Democrats , who feared that it masked a real intent to cut back on social programmes . |
| 11 | The speech was badly received by deputies and republican leaders , who complained that it contained nothing new or concrete , and was out of touch with the mood of the Supreme Soviet and of the country . |
| 12 | However , it was linked by Mrs Thatcher , who suggested that it signified that the Irish Republic was less committed than Britain in bringing the IRA to account for their crimes : ‘ You take these murders of these four people today alongside the decisions in the Supreme Court not to extradite those accused of violent crime — and one is very , very depressed ’ . |
| 13 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |