Example sentences of "[adj] who [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 2 | It was n't just the old and the rich who moved to Moon Beach . |
| 3 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 4 | On Jan. 26 , 1990 , Ivan Polyukhovich , a Ukrainian who emigrated to Australia in 1950 , was charged with the murder of 24 civilians and with complicity in the murder of 852 others in German-occupied villages near the Soviet Union 's border with Poland between August 1941 and May 1943 . |
| 5 | The current term was ‘ shaz ’ , meaning any female over 18 who went to Spain on holiday with boyfriend ‘ chaz ’ . |
| 6 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 7 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 8 | At first the numbers of those who tuned in to the BBC were modest in comparison to those who listened to Pétain 's homilies on Radio Vichy . |
| 9 | In defence of church liberties Pecham also decreed at Reading that Magna Carta was to be posted in every cathedral and collegiate church in the land and expounded in every parish church each Sunday ; violators , particularly those who resorted to writs of prohibition , or seized or wasted church property , or neglected to arrest unreconciled offenders when required to do so , were to be excommunicated . |
| 10 | This may be seen from the range of those who went to press on the subject in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 11 | It remained the case that , as A. J. P. Taylor remarked , there was , after the 1944 Act , a class distinction between those who went to grammar school and those who did not . |
| 12 | Although the pupils chosen , 79 from the grammar schools and 81 from the non-selective , had broadly similar attainments when they were aged ten , those who went to the grammar schools scored slightly higher than those who went to comprehensives . |
| 13 | the bourgeoisie erected an ideological barrier around those who went to prison … [ an ideology ] about crime , criminals , theft , the mob , degenerates , ‘ animals ’ … which was in part linked with racialism … |
| 14 | The only people in whose company she would sit were those who came to Sunday lunch and were also waiting for Montaine 's return . |
| 15 | However , those who came to Remaisnil for meetings could not but be struck by a paradox ; they were expected to remain in the château for meals and afterwards , until they retired to bed . |
| 16 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 17 | In doing so they helped to create resentments against the Masai in the minds of those who came to power in the post-colonial state . |
| 18 | These , then , were the books that became required reading for those who came to Cumberland Lodge to debate such issues . |
| 19 | Indeed , an important element in the BUF was provided by those who came to fascism from outside the traditional party spectrum and who had little or no previous political experience . |
| 20 | Allen was to play an important role in the story of the BUF , in general it was those who came to fascism from outside politics who were to prove the most important elements in the organization . |
| 21 | Arsenal manager George Graham was the most strident of those who hinted to Clough in recent weeks that when points go out of the door , football philosophy should fly through the window . |
| 22 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 23 | Those who yielded to passion forsook their self-control . |
| 24 | As Patrick Collinson has remarked , such communities became polarized between ‘ those who gadded to sermons and those who gadded to dances , sports and other pastimes ’ . |
| 25 | As Patrick Collinson has remarked , such communities became polarized between ‘ those who gadded to sermons and those who gadded to dances , sports and other pastimes ’ . |
| 26 | The attitude of many who object to children in pubs is not dissimilar to those who objected to women in men-only bars and pubs in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | French toddlers have been teaching a Middlesbrough sixth former who went to work in a nursery in France . |
| 28 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 29 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 30 | The Kurdish refugees want to see Saddam 's promises enforced by American power ; some of the 500,000 who fled to Turkey have drifted home , but not the 1m who fled to Iran . |