Example sentences of "who [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness . |
| 2 | Guillaume understood that Zborowski , ‘ who led the same kind of life as Modigliani , haunted the cafés with him ’ , would be far more suitable . |
| 3 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 4 | All they wanted to do was talk climbing : content to be in the company of people who shared the same obsession . |
| 5 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 6 | Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 7 | Labour identifiers who read left-wing papers saw more pro-Labour bias in these papers than Conservatives who read the same set of papers ( Table 6.8 ) . |
| 8 | None the less , Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 9 | The head of the college , Captain Lyndon Taylor , considered the pupils fortunate to have such a " thorough and gifted teacher who made the most of her cheerful and vibrant personality " . |
| 10 | But the one who made the most impact and will probably pay dearly for his injudicious comments during the week was Colin Montgomerie . |
| 11 | The most important point , however , is that this rapist , who got the most publicity , is the most unusual . |
| 12 | Here again it was the nobility and gentry who got the most attention , but at the same time the inferior ranks of society were defined with some rigour . |
| 13 | They work out who got the most shots in |
| 14 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
| 15 | Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine . |
| 16 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 17 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 18 | William Horsley , 83 , was punched and kicked by the thug who snatched the few pounds he had on him . |
| 19 | Ilyas , known as Ciwi-zade ( Civizade : d. 995/1587 ) , not to be confused with his father who bore the same name and who , as one of the Muftis in the period under review , is treated in some detail in a later chapter . |
| 20 | Four of the graves are those of a 98 Squadron Mitchell bomber crew who died on 24 June 1943 and the other is that of a Typhoon pilot of 266 Squadron who crashed the same day as Freddie Crewe . |
| 21 | Since those who caused the most difficulty were Ukrainians in the provinces of Kiev and Voronezh , and since Ukrainians retained relatively recent memories of the days of Cossack freedom , it is likely that many of the rural dwellers who proved hard to handle were motivated by the belief that they could bring their emancipation nearer . |
| 22 | This drew the immediate and sincere response ( and it should be noted that the South African Rugby Football union comments published in New Zealand have not attempted to side-step the issue ) from Dr Danie Craven that every player who opposed the All Blacks in their five matches in the republic would be cleared of drugs use . |
| 23 | Neil Morton suffered ankle ligament damage and is out of Saturday 's home game with Swansea , as is Barry Butler , who suffered the same injury against Brighton last weekend . |
| 24 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 25 | The chief inspector had seen businessmen before , stopped for drunken driving or speeding offences , who adopted the same tactic . |
| 26 | The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 . |
| 27 | She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention . |
| 28 | Because of the developing ideology of woman 's role in the family and her very special responsibility for society 's well being , it was women working outside the home who received the most attention from the parliamentary commissioners in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 29 | Of any conducteur before Habeneck , it was surely Jean-Baptiste Rey who received the most plaudits in print : after all , his career coincided with the maturity of the Classical orchestra and with the liberalization of the press after 1790 . |
| 30 | Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head . |