Example sentences of "those who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The declaration committed those who signed it to recognise the independence and sovereignty of other members , to respect human rights including those of national minorities , and to observe existing boundaries .
2 Do you dare to help those who robbed us ? ’
3 Some press and television people — even some of those who support him — talk of his apparent decency in this election campaign as if it were a vice .
4 I join him in saying that the enforcement of law and order in the Province of Northern Ireland lies with Her Majesty 's Government , the Chief Constable and those who support him .
5 The IRA , and those who support them , having listened to the Secretary of State 's statement , will he tell the House what part of his statement will have driven fear into the terrorist 's heart ?
6 I 'm very grateful to all those who support us , both by donating prizes and money and by giving up their time to help us .
7 But it is better to look at this issue separately , on its own merits — and in fact we find that theologians of all schools are among those who support it .
8 Spend as much time as possible with those who support you in every way .
9 Like her great namesake she was always well organized , and of course she had had so much experience helping with my grandmother 's last six confinements , and going out sometimes with our local midwife , who to some would be a Sairey Gamp , but to those who knew her , another angel of mercy .
10 Those who knew her during this period described her as full of life and fun and an exceptional administrator .
11 ‘ This includes all those who knew her well : the Lady Prioress , the two Sub-prioresses , and our comely Dame Agatha .
12 All those who knew her will miss her warm personality and lively mind .
13 Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) .
14 A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick .
15 He was appointed MBE , but those who knew him thought he deserved much more .
16 He was only 27 , amusing , very intelligent and talented and will be deeply missed by those who knew him .
17 Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep .
18 To most of those who knew him Henry was just eccentric enough to be terrifyingly normal , and even his carefully calculated bitterness , the quality of which , on the whole , he was most proud , had become , in early middle age , a Nice Dry Sense of Humour .
19 Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible .
20 Standing on the doorstep of the family 's Georgian mansion house , Mr Greig said : ‘ Louis brought great joy and happiness to our family and all those who knew him .
21 Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time .
22 More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security .
23 Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning .
24 Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities .
25 To do so I must read the eye-witness accounts of those who knew him .
26 Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best .
27 As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others .
28 It was a familiar stance to those who knew him , as was the smile he now gave his son ; a dark , ironic smile that seemed both amused and calculating .
29 Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job .
30 Spiers was an unassuming and kindly man , whose painstaking scholarship was greatly admired by those who knew him .
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