Example sentences of "[n mass] who had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 2 | It demanded the release of political prisoners , an amnesty for exiles , extension of the registration period to three months , and the issuing of identity cards to the estimated 3,500,000 people who had turned 18 since the previous election in 1988 , and who would not otherwise be able to register . |
| 3 | It was certainly not poor people who had lost these coins for each would have represented about a week 's wages . |
| 4 | It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame . |
| 5 | Mr Hunt , 56 , said contact with people who had undergone similar surgery was essential . |
| 6 | But in some parishes it er had been useful for them to stand out because the parish council was made up of people who had grown old with parish priests and er it was a chance to make a new start . |
| 7 | Following the plenum the leadership adopted a hardline approach to dissent while increasing efforts to regain the support and trust of the large numbers of people who had become disenchanted with the widespread corruption within the government and the party . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 10 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 11 | Decades had passed with no contact and yet here were the people who had shared seven years of my adolescence ; seven years climbing the same wall bars , sitting on the same grass , staring at the same view of Box Hill out of the window . |
| 12 | Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners . |
| 13 | It was undertaken generally by people who had experienced personal misfortune . |
| 14 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 15 | Both the Blacks and the Whites interviewed contained several people who had had some unpleasant experience of the police , though this only occasionally ( for the Blacks ) included a racial element . |
| 16 | There were six clairvoyants , four water diviners and nine people who had had direct contact with poltergeists . |
| 17 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 18 | She was on her feet , kicking the trunks , then flinging books , papers , jars , all around the attic , shouting abuse at the people who had left this rubbish up here . |
| 19 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 20 | Several sessions were to be led by hospital nursing and other professional staff who had done little or no formal teaching before but who showed an interest in the project . |
| 21 | Mr Titcombe welcomed the 150 guests , who included CSD personnel , colleagues from other Divisions , and some retired staff who had played important roles in making these two prestigious awards possible . |
| 22 | Council also thanked those members of staff who had put considerable effort into running the events . |