Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours .
2 On their return to the hotel , the three were caught climbing a security fence by armed guards who mistook them for Scotland fans .
3 She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment .
4 Search consultants joining companies who hired them for search :
5 These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria .
6 Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS .
7 There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again .
8 Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson .
9 Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs .
10 The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men .
11 And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice .
12 He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom .
13 This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist .
14 Kenneth Jackson 's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace .
15 Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service .
16 If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support .
17 Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown slammed the ‘ arrogant complacency ’ of Ministers who did nothing for homeowners , the unemployed or small businesses .
18 Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels .
19 ‘ I am particularly pleased at the number of able women who offered themselves for appointment , ’ he said .
20 Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts .
21 One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future .
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