Example sentences of "[Wh pn] they [vb past] of " in BNC.

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1 They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off .
2 When our decline in influence and shift in interest argued strongly for participation in Europe , they remained ambivalent about those whom they thought of as ’ unreliable continentals ’ .
3 Dutch and Belgian police on June 16-19 arrested four people whom they suspected of being members of an IRA active service unit on the continent .
4 By late April the Greek authorities were holding five Palestinian students whom they suspected of involvement in the attempted bomb attack .
5 Towards the close of the second day 's proceedings Gorbachev was forced to take over chairing the session to avoid delegates tabling a vote of no confidence in chairman Yefrem Sokolov , the Byelorussian Communist Party ( CP ) first secretary , whom they accused of railroading proceedings .
6 Earlier , pro-ANC mobs were said to have hunted Zulu-speaking workers from an Alexandra hostel whom they accused of starting violence on March 10 in which 28 people died .
7 In response government supporters erected flaming barricades in the capital and attacked the property of MPs whom they accused of obstructing the government 's current reform programme [ see p. 38386 ] .
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