Example sentences of "[n mass] who had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly not poor people who had lost these coins for each would have represented about a week 's wages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |