Example sentences of "[det] who [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth .
2 As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others .
3 Even in Carluke , there are those who are far from convinced that Beattie , then only 19 and described by those who knew him as a train-daft ‘ big softie ’ , was capable of such a violent act .
4 Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD .
5 Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party .
6 those who omitted it from a dictionary of fables were less than scholarly .
7 Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner .
8 Until 1957 the French news agency , Agence France-Presse , had no legal status : rival agencies and French communists were among those who presented it as a state or of official agency .
9 So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers .
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