Example sentences of "[adj] who [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensibly , from the point of view of the regime , Nicholas had taken the precaution of consigning the one prominent conspirator of 1825 who actually came from Siberia , Grigorii Baten'kov , to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg . |
| 2 | Two legs good or four wheels bad or does it depend who 's in the driving seat , after all who ever heard of a road sow . |
| 3 | Those who previously qualified for the former , therefore , have lost out substantially , as their sickness pay has been cut by almost 20 per cent . |
| 4 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 5 | Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place . |
| 6 | The event was attended by those who generously contributed to the project , by representatives from the RAF and by local dignitaries . |
| 7 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 8 | To those who actually sat in the hearing room , it was difficult to grasp the degree to which cinema had taken over . |
| 9 | There was little room for compromise between previous allies , especially as the Labour Party took advantage of the situation to discipline and expel all those who publicly sided with the Communists . |
| 10 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 11 | Throughout the period of the Rough Wooing , there existed in Scotland men known as the ‘ assured Scots ’ , those who formally contracted with and were often paid by the English — in other words collaborators . |
| 12 | Those who still thought in terms of a rural peasant Poland dominated by the feudal power of the szlachta and the Church had little time to adapt their vision . |
| 13 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 14 | Her win at Brighton in a tough final has proved , even to those who still doubted after her Wimbledon win , that she is back ! |
| 15 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 16 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 18 | Each of the retentionist members of the Labour Cabinet in 1947/8 who still sat in the Commons voted for abolition . |
| 19 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |