Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |
| 2 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 3 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 4 | Whether their actions were misplaced or not the final word on numbers belonged to the traders who 'd made their way from London to supply the crowds . |
| 5 | Compare this rendering of Herakles carrying off the Kerkopes ( mischievous goblins who had annoyed him ) with the same scene on a metope from a building at Foce del Sele on the west coast of Italy not far from Paestum , a sanctuary of Hera . |
| 6 | The Orcs were also provided with food and reinforcements by Forest Goblins who flocked to join them from the Great Forest . |
| 7 | Formal hunting scenes are firmly rooted in the traditions of the Persian Shahs and princelings who loved to have themselves depicted as noble hunters and horsemen ; such scenes represent the nearest examples of portraiture to be found in traditional rug designs . |
| 8 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 9 | As imperial portraits attracted faith , so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects ' trust were treated with contempt . |
| 10 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 11 | Before she could move or speak , the two guards who had brought her retreated back into the corridor , leaving her alone in the office . |
| 12 | By noon , he could hardly stand , let alone tramp over the moor , and he stumbled about , muttering away in Gaelic , complaining about working for a bunch of foreigners who had usurped his rightful King . |
| 13 | When asked to restore those Frenchmen who had lost their lands for refusing to recognise the legitimacy of English rule in the duchy , the English negotiators refused point blank . |
| 14 | Although it was called the ‘ Foreign Legion ’ , many of its recruits were Frenchmen who had changed their nationalities . |
| 15 | The creation of the Comintern gave them an opportunity to exclude from the Labour Party , for the first time , Marxists who wished to join it . |
| 16 | The Building News and The Architects ' Journal and ‘ gentlemen who had devoted their lives to the study of architecture ’ favoured Scott 's design . |
| 17 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 18 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 19 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 20 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 21 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
| 22 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 23 | Well these poor blighters who got flooded who could do with the wind to dry the houses out could n't they ? |
| 24 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 25 | The woman would probably think it was kids who had stolen them . |
| 26 | It was unbearably frightening for frogs who had spent their life in a world with petals round the edge . |
| 27 | The amendment was introduced by the government under pressure from land-owning peers led by Lord Pearson of Rannoch who , it later emerged , was backed mistakenly by 17 Labour peers who had misunderstood their brief . |
| 28 | The two men who came in were old friends of hers , rich American connoisseurs who had made their home in Paris before the war and left only just in time . |
| 29 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
| 30 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |