Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eardwulf 's adultery was in fact potentially serious because he became estranged from Eanbald ( II ) , archbishop of York , who succeeded his namesake in 796 . |
| 2 | Thomas Martyn , son of John Martyn and who succeeded his father as Professor of Botany at Cambridge , summarised these in the Preface of his revised edition of the Dictionary , published in 1807 . |
| 3 | The first expedition , under the king himself , was to sail to Flanders ; the second , under the Earl of Northampton , was to go to Brittany ; and the third and largest was despatched to Aquitaine under the command of the Earl of Derby , who succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster in that year . |
| 4 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 5 | Yet this burgeoning proved short-lived , barely continuing into the early years of the reign of Hirohito , the new Shówa emperor , who succeeded his father in 1926 . |
| 6 | The Ministry policeman who checked his I/D had been another one of those patronising cretins who had obviously too soon forgotten the massive two fingers dealt them by the S.A.S. His raincoat was wringing wet , and he was drenched , when he stepped off the minibus outside H area . |
| 7 | They wanted to know urgently , they said , who decided to employ him , and who checked his credentials . |
| 8 | This is a case of adding injury to insult — it was originally the cat 's job to kill the mice and the rodent-poisoners who usurped its role are not content merely with making it obsolete , but are also assaulting it physically in this underhand , prey-concealed way . |
| 9 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 10 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 11 | Traditionally , Microsoft has concentrated on creating products — and left the courting of customers to its dealers or to the computer makers who sold its DOS operating system with their machines . |
| 12 | Not too complicated , it would seem , for the 3.4 million shareholders who sold their electricity distribution company shares within two months of their issue . |
| 13 | Councils , too , such as the Paris councils held by the legate Robert of Courson in 1212 and 1213 legislated repeatedly against priests who sold their services . |
| 14 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 15 | In some instances these products were grown by peasants who sold their produce to local traders who in turn supplied urban merchants and exporters . |
| 16 | Steve Platt finds that the people who sold their votes are not necessarily Labour supporters ; Missing millions Did vanishing voters tip the electoral scales , asks Jolyon Jenkins ; Culture of contentment The western world seems set on a course that will lead to great violence in our cities , says J K Galbraith ; On the clothes line The Paris fashion industry employs illegal immigrants at knock-down wages , reports Nyta Mann ; Symbolic injustice The importance of the Rodney King case is that injustice was done , and was seen to be done , says Alexander Cockburn |
| 17 | However , the law , it would seem , was not so much concerned with those who drank as with those who sold their bodies for gain . |
| 18 | By 1877 Cook was successful enough to appoint sub-agents in several towns in northern England who sold their tours at 2½ per cent commission . |
| 19 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 20 | He knew it was coming because the girl who sold her story to Playboy magazine in America and the Sunday Mirror in London — British model and actress Karen Mayo-Chandler — warned him . |
| 21 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 22 | MILLIONAIRE racehorse owner and entertainments boss Chris Wright , who sold his 50% stake in Chrysalis Records a year ago , unveiled a sparkling set of results yesterday . |
| 23 | AN IRISHMAN who sold his family furniture for £600 was counting the cost today after Christie 's this week auctioned the same furniture for £230,000 . |
| 24 | Mr Coskun Yenici , aged 28 , who sold his kidney for £3,000 to finance medical treatment for his father , had to carry the other donor , Mrs Hatice Anutkan , out of the Wellington Humana hospital after the surgery last November . |
| 25 | Thunders is another ‘ hero ’ who sold his soul to rock ‘ n ’ roll . |
| 26 | Eric , who sold his house for the venture , is the resident caretaker , and plans to turn the house into a base for fellow trainspotters are under way . |
| 27 | But for the most part he was , in Lewis 's eyes , an ‘ idle prig ’ who wasted his time cultivating well-born families and pretty boys and visiting exotic churches . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the device proved inadequate to deter the thieves who attacked our vehicle . |
| 29 | He was the man who attacked our Tamar . ’ |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal has increased the jail term on a father who attacked his baby daughter from four years to six years . |