Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage .
2 Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match .
3 Instead of siding with the bishops who protested at this action , Henry put his weight behind the anti-clerical agitation and agreed to pass legislation reforming the church in a number of relatively minor ways .
4 Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf !
5 As the man with some previous experience of CAA hearings , it was Randolph Fields who arrived at Civil Aviation House in Kingsway , London , on the first day of the hearing to present the case for the newly inaugurated Virgin Atlantic Airways .
6 They were ballroom veterans , bobbing around a tottering couple with rigid elbows who frowned at each other 's feet .
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