Example sentences of "who [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tested the Volvo 460 on two readers who succeeded in the bid to get away . |
| 2 | Industrialists exploited their workers , and western nations exploited the rest of the world — but those who succeeded in the struggle were only too willing to see their success as the driving force of progress . |
| 3 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 4 | There were men that " passed like ships in the night " — the good ones and men like " your father " who snored in the night and roared in the day who it was best to put a pillow between . |
| 5 | And it was her fellow Australians who plunged in the knives with most relish . |
| 6 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 7 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 8 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 9 | The first thing that struck the other dons who lived in the Castle was his oddness . |
| 10 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 11 | The desecration of the cave , a holy place for the Indians who lived in the Mojave Desert , caused an uproar . |
| 12 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 13 | Most of the other people who lived in the street were professionals , a doctor , two more lawyers , a manager . |
| 14 | The upkeep of Hogarth House became neglected and it was severely damaged by enemy bombing , during the second world war , but a well known Chiswick resident who lived in the fine mansion of Grove House , Col. R. W. Shipway , J.P. , made a generous gift to the Middlesex County Council who restored the house and reopened it to the public as a museum in 1951 , transferring it to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 . |
| 15 | Many of the records were based on collections made for him by W. S. Duncan , who lived in the islands ( Campbell , op. cit . ) . |
| 16 | This is one of the survivors of the many mills formerly strung out along the Painswick Stream and probably took its name from the Damsell family who lived in the area during the 14th and 15th centuries . |
| 17 | The early wool trade is so closely associated with the spinning galleries and those who lived in the farmhouses and cottages that a short explanation of the methods of production may be helpful in understanding the way of life of the producers . |
| 18 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 19 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 20 | From the shade beneath the trees emerged each day some of the considerable number of people who lived in the mysterious heights . |
| 21 | In North America , emphasis is now placed not only on art history but also on what is termed ‘ material culture ’ — that is , everything pertaining to the lives and activities of all those who lived in the house . |
| 22 | An old lady , like that ancient crone who lived in the cottage she had just passed , who had a hairy mole on her chin and squinted hideously . |
| 23 | But Manetho , who lived in the third century BC , wrote in Greek and his work must be regarded as Hellenistic in character rather than Egyptian . |
| 24 | She said she had been hired as a nanny by an English couple called Wilson who lived in the city . |
| 25 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 26 | Smugglers ' caves around Shillingham and Elm Gate on the Saltash side still supposedly exist , one being found by a cobbler who lived in the cottage above one and noticed an echo when nailing the boots . |
| 27 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 28 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 29 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 30 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |