Example sentences of "those [pron] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury .
2 It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive .
3 Although those who studied at Kiev University ( Vil'na 's successor ) had to know enough Russian to understand lectures , they constituted the majority of the new university 's students for the first thirty years of its life and did not need Russian to consort with their peers .
4 Memorial window to those who served at RAF Thornaby 1937–1958 .
5 Perhaps the most striking is the bronze statue of an airman at Dalton-on-Tees which honours those who served at RAF Croft ( FP November , p29 ) .
6 The other group holds those who read at levels well below the level expected of them .
7 Of those who fought at Hazenbrouck , ten officers and around 200 ORs succeeded in getting back to England .
8 Many of those who died at Moreton in Marsh are buried in the local cemetery .
9 Looking back those who worked at Howard can see that the years from 1962 to 1969 were crucial ones .
10 Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home .
11 Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement .
12 Those who remained at work were likely to find themselves increasingly isolated : Miss Brechin told me that she was the very last woman to work in Morrison & Gibb .
13 Fifty per cent of mothers returning to work part time do so in lower level jobs than those they left at childbirth .
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