Example sentences of "people who [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 4 | But as Henry remarked to Elinor as the cortège moved away from Darby 's , the undertaker in the village , a charabanc might have been a more decent way of moving the extraordinarily large number of people who turned out for what Sprott referred to as ‘ the big goodbye ’ for Donald Templeton MD . |
| 5 | Added to which , these were simple people who worked hard for modest sums of money . |