Example sentences of "[adj] who [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the War a few who had married in the island remained , but the majority returned to Gibraltar . |
| 2 | With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade . |
| 3 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 4 | Some who had driven over the Berwyns insisted that they had had to put their headlights on , and this in the middle of a July day . |
| 5 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 6 | A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred . |
| 7 | Jack Rogers was a man of fifty who had worked on the shop-floor all his working life . |
| 8 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 9 | Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended . |
| 10 | The leader of the rebels , Imam Yasin Abu Bakr , demanded Robinson 's resignation , the establishment of a coalition interim government ( including himself ) , the holding of national elections within 90 days and an amnesty for all who had participated in the coup . |
| 11 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 12 | Then those who felt attracted by the idea of emigrating discussed it among themselves to see if it was at all feasible for them — there would be their affairs in Cork to liquidate , there might be family ties to take into account , there was even the question of whether they could endure the change of climate . |
| 13 | The south-west was far enough from the established centres of power for those who felt excluded from the throne to use it as a launching pad for rebellion . |
| 14 | and again rose , the pastor taking the cup and speaking the chosen words , whilst those who served went with the cups among the congregation … |
| 15 | The dancing stopped , and while those who 'd travelled to the all-dayer on coaches from Brighton , Hereford , Nottingham , Northampton , Leeds and Sheffield looked bemused at the sound of the King , the West Midlands regulars looked straight to Dermot Ryan , one of the three brothers behind promotions company Chuff Chuff . |
| 16 | The ship 's captain , Benjamin Saint Clair , who was among those who managed to swim to the coast , said passengers had apparently panicked during a heavy rainstorm , contributing to the disaster . |
| 17 | And if I could enjoy the dream , how much easier for those who were born in Israel or Lebanon or Palestine — or for those who wished to live in the land that was Palestine — to believe in it . |
| 18 | Although these proportions changed subsequently , particularly among the 55–59 age group , after three years only one in four of the whole group ( excluding those who had retired at the normal pension ages ) were in work . |
| 19 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |
| 20 | In other words , the objectives of those who had contributed to the developments that culminated in Rome were ambitious and overtly political . |
| 21 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
| 22 | For the players , there was the prospect of returning to their day jobs with £50 in their pockets , for the landlord there was a healthy night 's takings and for the crowd , even those who had stayed in the bar all evening , there was a nasty ringing in the ears the next morning . |
| 23 | The leadership of the army was heavily influenced for a generation to come by those who had served in the ranks of the Imperial Japanese army ; five of the first seven chiefs of staff and three of the ministers of defence between 1948 and 1961 were officers trained at the Imperial Defence College in Tokyo . |
| 24 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 25 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 26 | Fundamental to everything was the bitter experience of Japanese colonialism and the determination to eliminate the legacy of that experience together with those who had collaborated with the Japanese . |
| 27 | All who had gone to help the stricken townsfolk mixed with those who had lived through the disaster , and were present to mourn and pay a last tribute to their relatives , friends and neighbours , whose coffins , borne by men of the Fire Service , they now followed . |
| 28 | The amendments ( which were later rescinded ) restricted the right to vote to those who had lived in the constituency for at least two years , or elsewhere in Estonia for five years or more ; deputies themselves had to have lived in Estonia for at least ten years . |
| 29 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 30 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |