Example sentences of "[noun pl] who had [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 2 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 3 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 4 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 5 | Sarah herself knew many women who had moonlighted down the Bayswater Road to supplement meagre war pensions or National Assistance . |
| 6 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 7 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |