Example sentences of "those [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 2 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 3 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 4 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 5 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 6 | Depending on the contents , the report could provide Ferranti with ammunition for legal action against those who advised it during the ISC purchase . |
| 7 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 8 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |
| 9 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 10 | The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ . |
| 11 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 12 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 13 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 14 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 15 | The historic deepening process of the Community was foreseen from the outset , which is why those who commended it to the country 20 or 30 years ago took care to see that it was not misunderstood . |
| 16 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 17 | But , as the king found , he could not rely upon the Flemings ; their links with England were too strong for them to act with determination against those who supplied them with the wool upon which their own economic prosperity depended . |