Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 This led to insubordination amongst the Seventh Infantry who attacked the Governor and wounded one of the officers who accompanied him .
2 The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge .
3 There can be no simple or single explanation either of the great armies of more or less organized knights or of the rabble of thoroughly disorganized folk who followed the popular leader Peter the Hermit .
4 It is not closely related to those fish who pioneered the land , so any comparisons with them have to be made with caution , but even so it can give us a hint about how that momentous move was accomplished .
5 For the Australia media corps who covered the recent Wallaby tour of South Africa , the everlasting memory of Australian Rugby Football Union president Joe French will be his conducting an impromptu 11.00 pm press conference followed by another at 2.30 am in his hotel room dressed in a pair of shorts and a singlet .
6 He owned a savage wolfhound called Wolfhead and a herd of swine who roamed the forest and fields below Penhill .
7 According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better .
8 He glared at the people who surrounded the tent , and they glared back , wanting action .
9 Some people who ate the fish died in nasty ways .
10 This apparently innocuous theory ran into trouble in a French village on an occasion when wheat was grown in a normal way , converted into bread in a normal way and yet most people who ate the bread became seriously ill and many died .
11 The financial advisers of those days were probably the people who taught the ones who have been professional schemes .
12 Sumner was unhappy that WordPerfect was n't invited to take part in the exercise and was critical of the relatively small sample of 51 people who evaluated the products .
13 And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system .
14 I it 's only , th the attacks were against those people who abused the system not the system .
15 If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information .
16 The ATB did not have its own instructor force but employed people who had the relevant skills and knowledge in the particular course subject .
17 In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members !
18 Until William Green 's death in 1823 there were not many options open to those people who had the leisure to travel even if they could resist the siren songs of the ‘ Lakes ’ poets .
19 All this is culled from letters from people who had the forethought to record the event .
20 It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound .
21 These were mainly people who had the greatest freedom to vary their hours of employment — those without families , the middle-aged , the wealthy , and rural workers .
22 He contrasted their lot with what could be achieved by senior people who had the benefit of Share Option Schemes .
23 I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew .
24 ‘ I am disappointed for the complainants in this case , among them disturbed people who had the courage to came forward to the police ’ , he said .
25 The people who had the imagination or ability to do it where the ones that could speak the languages , the ones that did n't
26 I would n't be surprised if they were the sort of people who had the stolen bicycle down in the bushes .
27 But what about people who had the wrong , inflicted upon them , is n't that equally a matter of justice
28 This surely , whatever else it means , this , for this scripture here surely means that those people who had the opportunity of accepting Christ , of responding to him , but who have rejected him , they are in exactly the same position as Pontius Pilate .
29 At the other extreme were the ‘ citizens ’ who were respectable , church-going young people who rejected the ‘ rough ’ living of the lads .
30 I wonder whether the officials of the FAA who saw the RLD representatives were the same people who rejected the NTSB recommendation or , if not , if they were ever in communication with each other on the subject .
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