Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pupils , especially girls in rural areas , were withdrawn by their parents who considered it a Waste of money' to send girls to school . |
| 2 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 3 | The Repeater Hand Gun is also used from horseback by gallant Imperial Engineers who find it a devastating if temperamental device . |
| 4 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 5 | A SHOPLIFTER gave the two police officers who arrested her a shock when she sent them a Christmas card . |
| 6 | Yet the big powers have tended to pick high-grade but unadventurous diplomats who give them a quiet life . |
| 7 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 8 | He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players . |
| 9 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
| 10 | LITTLE battler Matthew Costen is going home in triumph — after defying doctors who gave him a fortnight to live . |
| 11 | It is men who decide what a woman can reasonably expect of life . |
| 12 | Conservative MPs who know what a party election is like do not relish the sheer nastiness that accompanies it . |
| 13 | Conservative MPs who know what a party election is like do not relish the sheer nastiness that accompanies it . |