Example sentences of "people who had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who had lived in that great rambling fortress of a house for generations , treating him as one of them — and he a carter 's son from the depths of the country ! |
| 2 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 3 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 4 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 5 | Jumping probation and knowing where to get mace cannisters — yeah , I knew people who had graduated from that particular school of life . |
| 6 | These killings , in Mölln , Schleswig-Holstein , brought to 17 the number of people who had died in extremist attacks during 1992 . |
| 7 | The system of creating life peers began in 1958 as a way of rewarding people who had excelled in political service , work with charities , industry or at the top of the professions . |