Example sentences of "who [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 2 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 3 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 4 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 5 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 6 | ( We should hear the question ‘ Who sold them the weapons ? ’ more often . ) |
| 7 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 8 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 9 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 10 | What about those who attacked them , were they racists ? |
| 11 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 12 | ‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’ |
| 13 | IBM 's DF/SMS improves on these figures , but nonetheless Candle says it was approached by ‘ several large corporations ’ including AT&T Co , with disk farms containing many Terabytes of storage who asked them to help out . |
| 14 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 15 | Yeah , who asked them ? |
| 16 | ‘ It was not I , mon ami , who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 18 | What is important is determining why they were here , and who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 19 | If women could enjoy sex as much as men , as the report affirmed , then the implication was that they always should and those who realized they were not achieving Kinsey 's statistical norm of orgasm soon asked themselves why not ? |
| 20 | They were the only ones who realized they could do it because God was with them . |
| 21 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 22 | A number of different rules of construction applicable to exclusion clauses have been identified , but it is probably safe to say that they are all really examples of the general rule that courts will interpret exclusion and similar clauses strictly , contra proferentem , or contrary to the interests of the party who drafted them — normally the person seeking to rely on them . |
| 23 | It was a place to associate with bare-breasted maidens , the bohemian European artists of the thirties who immortalised them , floral garlands , towering cloud-capped peaks . |
| 24 | the pursuer succeeded in his application for an interim payment against his employer who argued they should only be liable to pay 50% because of the alleged negligence of the master of a ship . |
| 25 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 26 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 27 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 28 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 29 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 30 | He said , it was all vanity and childishness : and that such objects were , to those who patronised them , mere mirrours of their own superiority . |