Example sentences of "who [vb past] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the puzzle : the biggest and most immediate beneficiaries of the takeover boom of the 1980s — that is , those shareholders who sold to bidders — were retired Americans , present and future . |
| 2 | In defence of church liberties Pecham also decreed at Reading that Magna Carta was to be posted in every cathedral and collegiate church in the land and expounded in every parish church each Sunday ; violators , particularly those who resorted to writs of prohibition , or seized or wasted church property , or neglected to arrest unreconciled offenders when required to do so , were to be excommunicated . |
| 3 | They were passing through pleasant country — hunting country , she knew , with open tracts of undulating land among the cultivated fields , offering a good many jumps and lengthy runs for the hardy spirits who rode to hounds . |
| 4 | The attitude of many who object to children in pubs is not dissimilar to those who objected to women in men-only bars and pubs in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | The ‘ irresistibility theory ’ fits with the views of early German ornithologists who referred to foster-parents as behaving like ‘ addicts ’ and to the cuckoo nestling as their ‘ vice , . |
| 6 | There were 25 per cent pay cuts for Burton Group 's Sir Ralph Halpern and John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , who sank to earnings of £996,000 and £740,700 respectively . |
| 7 | Chairman David Simpson , who appealed to supporters to help the club raise the money , said : ‘ We had some reaction . |
| 8 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 9 | There once was a lady called Polly who talked to flowers . |
| 10 | And he should remember that the last person who talked to trees while pursuing a determined foreign policy was George III . |
| 11 | Janice , who switched to nights this week to cover for a colleague , today told the Echo : ‘ He stood next to me and did not look at all shifty . |
| 12 | Queen 's , who lost to Collegians yesterday still have a mathematical chance . |
| 13 | Twelve of the Leicester side who lost to Quins are back on duty , led by the doughty John Wells . |
| 14 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 15 | Although the pupils chosen , 79 from the grammar schools and 81 from the non-selective , had broadly similar attainments when they were aged ten , those who went to the grammar schools scored slightly higher than those who went to comprehensives . |
| 16 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 17 | I was thoroughly put off the whole notion while sharing a flat in New York with a woman who went to pieces when she lost her favourite crystal , and who went to a ‘ Fear of Failure ’ workshop one week , only to attend a ‘ Fear of Success ’ workshop the next . |
| 18 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 19 | There was a rags to riches tale about the son of immigrants who went to parties with the rich and famous , a recognisable name , and even a dead body . |
| 20 | At last , there was a national politician who listened to lesbians and gays and spoke out for us in a way that was without fear , shame or embarrassment . |
| 21 | Senior staff who listened to parents were sometimes able to negotiate improvements , but sometimes they uncovered a family history of truancy to be overcome . |
| 22 | She smiled , her old dazzling smile , of Sylvie the performer who spoke to men 's hearts as well as their groins . |
| 23 | A woman who spoke to detectives last year could have a vital clue , but be too terrified to telephone again . |
| 24 | As Patrick Collinson has remarked , such communities became polarized between ‘ those who gadded to sermons and those who gadded to dances , sports and other pastimes ’ . |
| 25 | As Patrick Collinson has remarked , such communities became polarized between ‘ those who gadded to sermons and those who gadded to dances , sports and other pastimes ’ . |
| 26 | This prig , a dogmatic fundamentalist cocooned in a wealthy , reactionary , churchy upper-class , was a terrible hypocrite , who preached to others the old Catholic family virtues while being vicious to his wife and selectively hateful to his children . |
| 27 | It called — on the whole — for people different from those associated with the old-boy network , generally different from the type of people who responded to advertisements , and required a new approach to recruitment . |
| 28 | The London Council of 1074x1075 decreed excommunication for magic and the statutes of Canterbury I 1213x1214 decreed penalties for priests who sacrificed to demons and practised magic . |
| 29 | But they were alarmed to discover that sanitarians had been displaced by a new force in sexual politics : the militant voice of articulate middle-class women who pointed to men as the root cause of immorality . |