Example sentences of "who [vb base] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who use them in this way thereby manifest their own acceptance of them as guiding rules and with this attitude there goes a characteristic vocabulary different from the natural expressions of the external point of view . |
| 2 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 3 | They respond with their age-old weapons — by trying to order their daughters-in-law about , taking away their jewellery , making their lives impossible with hundreds of petty rules , forcing sons and daughters who oppose them into arranged marriages , and , more than anything else , trying to get hold of every pay packet which is brought home . |
| 4 | They explain different things , or different parts of the same thing , and can thus coexist without creating deep conflicts in those who employ them with admirable discrimination and precision . |
| 5 | Today , I was told , villagers living around the great wool churches of Lavenham and Long Melford have to bar their doors and ignore the knocking of tourists , who take them for antique shops and offer to buy their furniture . |
| 6 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |
| 7 | Through you , Mr. Speaker , I wish to apologise unreservedly to the families involved in Friday 's bombing , to those who represent them in this House , and to all those in our wider society who would have taken wholly justified offence . |