Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man behind the project is popstar Fish who shot to fame in the early 1980s as lead singer of the group Marillion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 4 | Bastard about Man U tix only going to people who went to Sunderland away . |
| 5 | By and large , the Assembly became populated by people who went to Strasbourg because they were interested in Europe and unity , while ministers have represented national governments to which they are responsible . |
| 6 | He eventually was driven off the farm but the respectable white people who went to church . |
| 7 | the people who went to Pontepool last week ? |
| 8 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 9 | The petition 's author , engineering physicist Mary James , says the issue is ‘ a crisis of conscience ’ for many people who came to SLAC believing weapons work would never be done . |
| 10 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |
| 11 | By mid-June these included : 5-7,000 Ethiopian refugees in Yemen , including 1,700 naval personnel ; 3,000 refugees from Assab in Djibouti ; 300,000 people who returned to Sudan from camps near Gambela [ see below ] ; 130,000 Ethiopians in the Sudanese town of Kassala who were reported to be non-Tigreans who had recently left Tigray ; and 30,000 Ethiopians who had crossed into Kenya at Moyale . |
| 12 | It called — on the whole — for people different from those associated with the old-boy network , generally different from the type of people who responded to advertisements , and required a new approach to recruitment . |
| 13 | We advertised , in fact , for people who wanted to smoking but could do with a little help , because I really do think that women do need a little help , a bit of support to do this . |
| 14 | But as member of the national assembly , do you think those Palestinians are those people who fled to India and the Philippines etc. will be allowed back . |
| 15 | The ideal grew out of one man 's initiative and people who referred to Sir Matt Busby as a visionary did so without hesitation because , of all the titles bestowed upon him , none appeared to be more appropriate . |
| 16 | Senior staff who listened to parents were sometimes able to negotiate improvements , but sometimes they uncovered a family history of truancy to be overcome . |