Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perdita , having taken far too much , was now feeding the rest of the steak to the shaggy lurchers who ringed the table , but kept their distance . |
| 2 | George Walker , a tall , well-built centre-half , was a Scottish International with 29 caps who joined the Palace from Notts County early in the summer of 1936 for a fee of £500 . |
| 3 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 4 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 5 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 6 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 7 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 8 | The only note of discord came from fans who swamped the Middlesbrough switchboard complaining about the timing of the event . |
| 9 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 10 | The 250 fans who packed the annual general meeting at White Hart Lane gave Paul Bobroff , the company chairman , an orderly hearing . |
| 11 | The victory prompted incredible scenes of jubilation from the success-starved Everton fans who invaded the pitch on the final whistle . |
| 12 | Pollock , 18 , equalised with a 25-yard shot eight minutes after the break and celebrated with a somersault before being mobbed by fans who invaded the pitch . |
| 13 | If your town was cabled and you were one of 80,000 house-holders who paid a subscription , you could get a variety of extra specialized channels such as sport and movies . |
| 14 | It should be emphasised that participating practitioners were asked to return details of all patients on their lists who experienced an attack and not simply those whom they saw personally . |
| 15 | Schools who had the interest and expertise should be encouraged to make a reasonable investment of time in teaching such units in place of separate optional topics . ' |
| 16 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 17 | The schools who took the challenge are happy to be in control of their own affairs . |
| 18 | Syracuse had long been ruled by tyrants who patronised the arts and sciences . |
| 19 | And then there was Our Lady of the Leftovers who entered the NFT bar wearing a fur stole and carrying a sequinned evening bag . |
| 20 | However , as Omari has pointed out , the paper also printed letters from readers who took a nationalist point of view , and tried to provide answers to them . |
| 21 | Readers who saw the game on television will recall that Brooke did exactly as the law required and so the try was legal . |
| 22 | Viewers who alleged bias on television tended to give television news lower marks for ‘ usefulness ’ than viewers who perceived no bias on television ; but readers who alleged bias in their papers tended to give their papers higher marks for ‘ usefulness ’ than readers who perceived no bias in their paper ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 24 | Edwardians who had no such inhibitions |
| 25 | The peace sign itself was devised by British pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N ( nuclear ) and D ( disarmament ) . |
| 26 | Opposition to the Shah 's regime was disparate — fragments of the old National Front , a survival from the times of Mossadeq in the 1940s and 1950s ; a miscellany of resurgent Islamic and minor left-wing groups ; the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party ; disappointed businessmen who perceived the hand of the Shah 's family behind every deal they failed to clinch ; and smaller traders who resented the Shah 's busying himself with high prices in the bazaar . |
| 27 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 28 | Yet the Conservative dominance of the new government , and their move towards protectionism , alienated Sir Herbert Samuel and the free traders who left the National government in September 1932 . |
| 29 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
| 30 | Outside in The Cheese Market at the corner of Castle Street and Blue Boar Row , traders who paid no tolls were always to be found on the same spot each Market Day . |