Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a selfish little swine who behaved appallingly at Catterick , ’ was her assessment of Quick Reaction 's display in a Hunter Chase three days earlier , ‘ so I ran him here as a punishment ! ’ |
| 2 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 3 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 4 | Jimmy-One-Arm … a great many people who played unwarily against him died unexpectedly in their early forties . |
| 5 | The post would only be used for people who lived out of the dale . |
| 6 | When that particular shooting star was shot he became an anti-Vietnam war protester , a Chicago convention activist , one of the young people who campaigned vociferously for George McGovern ( though , like everyone else , he actually voted for Nixon ) . |
| 7 | After all , what sort of threat was a group of film people who got together with interested artists , writers and sculptors on Sunday evenings to screen foreign films ? |
| 8 | Some anonymous little department at D15 that took care of people who got out of line , but would that necessarily mean they 'd have a go at me ? |
| 9 | The Old Testament was written for the people of Israel — the people who looked back to Jacob ( = Israel ) as their common ancestor and to Abraham as the founder of their nation . |
| 10 | She had had enough of these old people who looked down at her from their height of years , who always knew what was best for her . |
| 11 | Back in England , I had always looked on people who went round with no shoes on as crackpots and show-offs , on a par with youths who wore shirtsleeves in midwinter . |
| 12 | Differences in sample characteristics may explain some part of it ( for instance in Ipswich the action samples contained a higher proportion of heavily dependent people who went straight into institutions after their referral to the psychogeriatric service ) . |
| 13 | To people who went on about their likeness the girl was assiduous in pointing out that every feature when compared was different , but they were recognisable instantly as mother and daughter , as the woman in the shop said , they were from the same mould . |
| 14 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 15 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 16 | Joseph Frazer 's noted Ship Chandlery , one of many such businesses once so common in Butetown , has been adapted to house an exhibition which tells the fascinating story of the Port of Cardiff and the people who came here from all over the world to create a remarkable cosmopolitan community . |
| 17 | My previous astonishment at the fact that people who came here like De Michelis [ the former foreign secretary ] , or like ex-Prime Minister Andreotti , never endowed us with any money is now diminished . |
| 18 | That was heard by the three people who came quickly on the scene after the Easthaven murder . |
| 19 | And , to be honest , the motivation was gained from the reaction of friends and people who came along to the gigs , because I do n't always have a lot of confidence in what I do . |
| 20 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 21 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 22 | He says that when he was small , his grandfather used to tell him about little people who came out at night to play with the toys . ’ |
| 23 | Half the visitors were from societies all over the North but the other half were people who came out of interest and curiosity . ’ |
| 24 | Reports indicated that at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar , in addition to the 56,000 people who died there under Hitler , as many as 13,000 more died when the camp was used by Soviet forces to imprison political opponents in 1945-50 . |
| 25 | Youths dressed in the PAC 's black and yellow colours shouted demands to be given AK47s and Scorpion machine-pistols as their president , Clarence Makwetu , eulogised the 69 people who died there at a PAC anti-pass law protest on 21 March , 1960 . |
| 26 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 27 | The young people who returned illegally to the cities felt there was little left to lose . |
| 28 | Some of the wilder wheat beers might taste odd to the uninitiated , but not to people who grew up with them . |
| 29 | Soaps do n't usually focus on characters like this , people who grew up with the idealistic values of the 1960s and early 1970s , who have put off having children until their thirties , who worry about the environment but also worry about how they 're not managing to do enough about it . |
| 30 | For most people who grew up before the sixties , skinheads are seen as yet another unpleasant and ugly aspect of modern youth . |