Example sentences of "men who [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finished by telling Ho about the terrified middle-aged couple and the men who had covered the Worm 's tracks — men headed by Ray Shepherd . |
| 2 | A group of children , their dirty faces streaked with tears , clung to her tattered gown and stared round-eyed at the group of men who had commandeered the room and were now talking quickly in an alien language . |
| 3 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 4 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 5 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 6 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 7 | Prayers sprang to the lips of men who had made a trade out of phoney miracles . |
| 8 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |
| 9 | Employers for instance tended to reject the view that all men who had served an apprenticeship were skilled . |
| 10 | In France whose who held high command , sometimes as lieutenants du roi , were usually princes or men who had achieved the rank of banneret , those senior knights whose swallow-tailed pennons had been cut to the square banners of their new rank . |
| 11 | It was a term used by common soldiers — men who had shared a tent , a bowl of meat , or the last of the wine . |
| 12 | In the second case , the appellant had been identified by the victim as one of three men who had committed a robbery . |
| 13 | The three men who had worked the lift continued to be employed at Foxton until the outbreak of the war in 1914 . |
| 14 | The men who had pierced the final aperture were waiting to greet them : identifiable as a body of sweat , and heat and small movements that resolved into a murmur , a clink of spade and a clap on shoulder or back . |
| 15 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 16 | There was between them and the quarterdeck a group of men who had left the fighting . |
| 17 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 18 | The link between these operas is that they are about men who had changed the world through the power of ideas . |
| 19 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 20 | Tables and benches were put right , the unconscious bodies revived and the two young men who had started the fray were led bloodied and dishevelled from the hall . |
| 21 | The profiles of outstanding men who 'd achieved a lot were supposed to give data for the development of new drugs . |
| 22 | They wore expensive suits and had the general air of men who 'd found the secret key to the money pump and were cranking its handle for all they were worth . |