Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 2 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 3 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |
| 4 | The National Assembly on Oct. 15 approved legislation to restrict illegal immigration by heavily penalizing employers who employed illegal immigrants , and guides who brought them over French borders . |
| 5 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 6 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |