Example sentences of "[prep] those who [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At school I would follow certain rules in an ostentatious manner ( while breaking others in secret ) and become severe , even morally censorious , towards those who lapsed from my hypocritically high standards . |
| 2 | She invited help and then behaved towards those who helped as if they were incompetent or , like her mother , were taking over . |
| 3 | In the north transept of Polebrook 's Church of All Saints is a Memorial Book containing the names of those who served on the airfield and other memorabilia . |
| 4 | At least 43 per cent of those who served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 were either Dissenters or from Dissenting backgrounds , whilst persons from the Dissenting interest also figured prominently as holders of Bank stock and as directors of the New East India Company . |
| 5 | Some of those who served with the Forces on the continent were brought close to areas where their families had lived , or where friends and relatives had last been heard of . |
| 6 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 7 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 8 | At this point we take up the experience of those who returned to their former jobs . |
| 9 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 10 | He left the chamber without answer , knowing the fate of those who failed on an imperial mission . |
| 11 | Next morning , 19th July , all is quiet , and after breakfast I decided to pay a visit to the other Commando units ; 4 Commando and 3 Commando , lots of new faces , not many of those who landed on the 6th June are left . |
| 12 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 13 | Some of those who stuck with the rebellion had to force their way through the Tory crowd and shake off the intimidation . |
| 14 | A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits . |
| 15 | As Oliver ( 1986 ) has recently pointed out , the word was originally used in respect of those who cared for dependent adult relatives , mostly elderly people : |
| 16 | Her sister was headstrong and volatile , sometimes thoughtless of the feelings of those who cared for her , but she could also be charming and generous , compassionate and very lovable , and she was certainly no femme fatale , to lead a man to his doom against his will . |
| 17 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 18 | Of those who fought at Hazenbrouck , ten officers and around 200 ORs succeeded in getting back to England . |
| 19 | Two films made by James Williamson , for example , deal with the hardships endured by the families of those who fought in the Boer War . |
| 20 | The founder of a support group for families of those who fought in the Gulf War has had his court appearance on theft charges adjourned for two weeks . |
| 21 | In 1978 75% of those who wrote to their MP considered they had ‘ good ’ or ‘ very good ’ replies . |
| 22 | Many of those who wrote about it at the time recalled Christopher Marlowes line , " Is it not fine to be a King and ride in triumph in Persepolis ? " |
| 23 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 24 | That reconciliation was not Franco 's guiding principle was clear from the decree he had issued on 1 April 1939 ( the same day he had signed the final war bulletin ) , ordering that a monument be built " to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Crusade of Liberation " and to honour " those who gave their lives for God and the Fatherland " . |
| 25 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 26 | Of those who responded to a questionnaire , 83 per cent of women subscribers supported the principle of full membership for women . |
| 27 | And yet it is equally clear that in the minds of those who believed in his divinity , he was indeed a god . |
| 28 | At one stage she says she suggested that he go and she stay , for the sake of those who believed in them . |
| 29 | But the loyalty of those who left to their ‘ house ’ and their village was such that when they were able to they sent money home , and many eventually came back in person , to die where they were born . |
| 30 | This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all . |