Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked for the gamekeeper from the villa among the group of men in dark suits and flat caps who stood talking between the plastic flower stall and the van selling salted fish , but he was n't able to spot him . |
| 2 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 3 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 4 | It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long . |
| 5 | By the eighteenth century Pocklington society included a number of gentlemen , attorneys , apothecaries , merchants and those rural clergy who preferred to live in the town rather than in the cultural isolation of their rural parsonages . |
| 6 | It was the priest and doctor and not the guerrilla fighters who had emerged as the bigwigs in the country Moran had fought for . |
| 7 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 8 | His coup this time was to read a list , shortly before polling day , of Jews who had contributed to the campaign of his challenger , Mr Mel Reynolds . |
| 9 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |
| 10 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 11 | He stated that the many foreigners who had worked with the impressive radio facilities of ‘ The Voice of China ’ in or near Chungking would shortly be leaving ; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in need of an experienced professional broadcasting executive to assist in continuing broadcasts from China on medium-wave internally , and on short-wave to the world . |
| 12 | But just as the auction was about to begin there was a commotion amongst the knot of gentlemen who had gathered around the foot of the stairs . |
| 13 | At a time when most other states favored candidates who had advanced through the ranks California selected office holders on the basis of real or supposed charismatic appeal . ’ |
| 14 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 15 | It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , some of our supporters who had hiked to the match appeared not to have a sense of humour . |
| 17 | The Pompey chimes were echoing around north London as the 20,000 supporters who had travelled from the south coast prepared to celebrate . |
| 18 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 19 | The same Highlanders who had advanced to the charge like lions , with bold and determined countenance , were in an instant seen flying like trembling cowards in the greatest disorder . ’ |
| 20 | It was October 31st , All-Hallows Eve , and only credit balances in several hundred bank accounts recalled summer visitors who had swarmed over the streets and beaches and cliffs between June and September . |
| 21 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 22 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 23 | His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence . |
| 24 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 25 | As the tank-landing craft heads out into the English Channel I play a slow Highland air , Loch Monar , a tune I have played many times at Achnacarry , and possibly recognised by many of those Commandos who had passed through the Training Centre . |
| 26 | A still , small voice inside him murmured ‘ this is all too easy ’ , but offers flooded in from the combines , the multi-nationals , the companies who had profited from the rape of the Earth , and who were now taking their ecological molestation into space . |
| 27 | A different tactical response by the US asbestos industry was to export its hazardous production to other non-regulated peripheral countries such as Mexico and the South American countries , following earlier examples of asbestos companies who had moved to the southern US states to avoid higher insurance costs in the northern states . |
| 28 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 29 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 30 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |