Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat .
2 People who had kindly given assistance for earlier books , particularly Inside Buckingham Palace and Duchess were asked to help .
3 Yes , the Compus course was really a a further work orientation course , for people who had just left school .
4 The DTI said it wanted to avoid the risk of a ‘ disorderly collapse ’ which would have threatened the savings of those people who had already put money into the funds .
5 Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets .
6 This was particularly true of people who had close knit kin networks , who were unlikely to use individual kin as close confidants , and who often said that there were certain kin — usually parents — whom they would definitely not consult ( ibid .
7 Some of the people who had suddenly become saleswomen , they had to go , because they could n't cope with that .
8 Now the main target of the attack were the , the local tyrants , the evil gentry and the , the lawless landlords , people who 'd previously held power before who the peasants , or who the communists were trying to , to take the power away from , they , they were people who were it was possible to motivate the peasants against er again phrasing everything , er the people are evil , you know , that they , they were tyrants .
9 Even people who did n't like country liked Johnny Cash .
10 If all the people who did n't know Keller left his party the waiters would have to serve each other . ’
11 His clients were private people who did not want publicity .
12 Muschel and her co-workers analysed DNA from 14 normal people who did not have cancer , and from the tumour cells , the normal bladder tissue , and some blood cells of a patient with a bladder tumour .
13 Those people who did not have access to that sort of platform took their protests onto the streets and it was here that Ian Paisley and his followers earned their public reputation .
14 We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death .
15 Because of the roughness of the ground in Taimyr the Tavgi were the only Siberian people who did not use skis .
16 That was proved today by the number of people who turned up to pay tribute to Lord Ridley of Liddesdale .
17 Staff who 'd long feared redundancies were on the cards hear the news at meetings today .
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