Example sentences of "men who [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , with inflation , only a small group profited but they were the men who directed some important changes in the country 's agricultural and industrial patterns , and whose conspicuous consumption we have already seen . |
| 2 | Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords . |
| 3 | Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings . |
| 4 | In men under 50 , however , periodontal disease was a stronger risk factor ; men with periodontitis had a nearly twofold higher risk of coronary heart disease than men who had little or no periodontal disease . |
| 5 | I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other . |
| 6 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 7 | Two men who fought each other for the leadership after the disastrous defeat of 1983 , settled down well together . |
| 8 | And on the third day , some men who thought this to be a favourable sign went forth to water the bumpouses and to bring them to their maturity and wholesomeness . |
| 9 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
| 10 | The men who inserted these phrases knew what they were doing , and they knew also that it was important not to overdo the subject of the primacy . |
| 11 | Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it . |
| 12 | Mr Arthur Cross said : ‘ The men who did this are bloody murderers . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , police are keen to interview two men who chased another Asian youth after the attack on Quaddus . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , even catering for the eloquence of the after-dinner story teller , this abrupt introduction of Doctor Who into the Serials Department does serve to give an insight into two men who shaped much of what later went before the cold eyes of the BBC cameras . |
| 15 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 16 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |