Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for those insular fans who shunned them in their thousands at Old Trafford and Elland Road , a sense of guilt would not be inappropriate . |
| 2 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 3 | On their return to the hotel , the three were caught climbing a security fence by armed guards who mistook them for Scotland fans . |
| 4 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 5 | In fact the victims were mainly the families of senior military officers and the Ba'ath party officials , and the walkie-talkies were being used by the drivers who took them to the shelter . |
| 6 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 7 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 8 | A month later my parents were met on the open plain outside Addis Ababa by Lord Herbert Hervey and a deputation of Abyssinian notables who escorted them to the Legation , at some distance to the east of the town , in an extensive compound at the foot of the Entoto hills . |
| 9 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 10 | Search consultants joining companies who hired them for search : |
| 11 | They were distributed ( quite how was never made clear ) among three sections , and then among lineage shaikhs who distributed them to household heads . |
| 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 | The ones who served on the Organising Committee and the embryo Central Authority , and the remainder who joined them on appointment later in 1947 , were quite clear that they would not give up their statutorily entrenched independence to Citrine and Self . |
| 14 | Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . |
| 15 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 16 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 17 | He said the wearing of poppies laudable and worthy in the outside world was considered provocative by republican prisoners who perceived them to be a loyalist symbol . |
| 18 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 19 | Customers had no idea that the chirpy pensioner who served them with soap and a smile was so wealthy . |
| 20 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 21 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 22 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |
| 23 | Texts were inevitably part of their culture , as were the individuals who wrote them under the shaping constraints of state , family , religion . |
| 24 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 25 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 26 | Subsection ( 5 ) defines ‘ relevant shares ’ as : ‘ shares in the company other than — ( a ) shares which as respects dividends and capital carry a right to participate only up to a specified amount in a distribution , and ( b ) shares which are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme or , in the case of shares which have not been allotted , are to be allotted in pursuance of such a scheme . ’ |
| 27 | And sub-section ( 4 ) defines ‘ relevant employee shares ’ as ‘ shares of the company which would be relevant in it but for the fact that they are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme ’ |
| 28 | Appointees have to fill in monstrous forms providing full details of their financial affairs , listing all their jobs , addresses and trips abroad in the past 15 years , and supplying the names of at least one person who knew them in their various abodes . |
| 29 | A warehouseman with whom goods have been deposited is guilty of no conversion by keeping them , or restoring them to the person who deposited them with him , though that person turns out to have had no authority from the true owner . ’ |
| 30 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |