Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |
| 2 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 3 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 4 | His exceptional talent was eventually recognized by the editor , E. V. Knox [ q.v. ] , who placed him under an exclusive contract , an almost unprecedented arrangement . |
| 5 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 6 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 7 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 8 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |