Example sentences of "the [noun pl] who [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were aware that there were men among the thickets following us , but it was the monkeys who caused us most trouble . |
| 2 | My father , my mother and I were often asked to spend Sunday afternoons in the country , but sometimes , unless a horse and cart were sent to collect us , we could not go because the families who invited us lived too far away . |
| 3 | A humorous view of a wife murderer from the writers who brought us Hancock and Steptoe . |
| 4 | Our National President , Steve Gauld , closed the Convention and we offered our thanks and gratitude to all those who had made the weekend such a success , to Tim Cain who kept all the sessions to time ; to the exhibitors who supported us so well ; to all the members and outside speakers who made presentations ; to the staff of Keele University who served us so well in all areas ; and to Joe Bennett who organised the whole thing , sorted out the speakers , took our bookings and generally made sure it all went well . |
| 5 | Er we 're financed by grants from various authorities and by payments of course from the bodies who ask us to put on these talks . |
| 6 | My sister reminds me of our isolation , the neighbours who fed us meat and sweets , the tea parties we went out to but which we were never allowed to return . |
| 7 | I shall always be grateful to the teachers who required us to memorise both poetry and Bible passages which are now part of me . |
| 8 | The tall , those engrossers of manhood , those hyperbolic exemplifiers of the species , the monsters who overlook us . |
| 9 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 10 | The men who attacked us just now all have mounts . |
| 11 | The men who watched us began to feel uneasy . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you said you saw one of the children who attacked us , Khan , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ The ones who hold us down . |
| 14 | ‘ The ones who kill us every day . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is the most common form , an anti-parliamentarianism of crisis , a sudden flame of protest against the cronies who govern us , a deep desire , which come from a desperate belief that ‘ things must change ’ . ’ |