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Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project .
2	A typical example is the sentence ‘ Those who sold quickly made a profit ’ .
3	This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit
4	This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit
5	Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 .
6	IN : The new Commons stage will be graced by the actress , Miss Glenda Jackson , 55 , who produced sufficiently convincing a performance in her debut as an active Labour politician to stir Hampstead and Highgate .
7	He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them .
8	All too typically I saw enthused teachers returning from training , armed with new perspectives who became progressively drained of optimism as they faced non-understanding in colleagues , shortage of resources , lack of follow-up support , and who ended up despairing and cynical about possibilities of real change .
9	The cast of Sea Change included , among the fisherfolk , a dancer new to the company who became closely associated with John in later years , Peter Wright .
10	A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications .
11	Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects .
12	Rate of charge on capital distribution Where the property was held on discretionary trust before 26th March , capital distributions of the settled property to individuals who became beneficially entitled to it will be charged only the following fractions of the tax that would otherwise be charged on capital distributions of the settled property : These reliefs will also apply where an interest in possession comes into existence in property previously held on discretionary trust .
13	He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year .
14	Who lived full filled with truth and good .
15	The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told .
16	An old stockman who lived nearby had a gold-pan and a sluice-box — not to mention a very dubious prospector 's map , with ‘ reef gold ’ marked in the most enticing , most improbable places , and they got a bad case of gold fever .
17	Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom .
18	Similarly those who lived alone cost more in community services than those who lived with others ( Table 6.3 ) .
19	Old Mrs Hamilton who lived there died recently , so the place is empty now .
20	There were lights in the Dale now , as the men who lived there came forward to investigate the tumult .
21	A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child .
22	Mrs Mahoney , who lived there described years later :
23	The man who lived there showed us why this was necessary ; he produced a pair of trousers mouldered beyond recall , obviously now only suitable for the dirtiest of tasks .
24	At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered .
25	Ardoyne woman Marion Kane , who fought hard to turn the scheme into reality , said : ‘ This is a dream come true and goes to show what can be achieved if local people are determined to have what they deserve . ’
26	So-called ‘ horror stories ’ ( gory illustrations depicting the de-beaking of turkeys , dogs being hanged , huntsmen exulting over the corpse of a fox , or reports of a senile researcher who failed properly to anaesthetise his animal subjects ) may well be effective copy and have an impact upon gullible readers but are of limited argumentative worth .
27	A quality innings of 46 from Crowe ended after 135 minutes when he had to play a Lewis leg-cutter and the ball carried to second slip Hick , who lunged forward to reach and hold it .
28	Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet .
29	A man who admitted twice raping his 15-year-old daughter and indecently assaulting her teenage friend was jailed for six years .
30	Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ .