Example sentences of "people who [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph was there , but where now were the people who had posed for it , stiff and unsmiling , in their clothes all washed and ironed for the occasion ? |
| 2 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 3 | Mrs Di Brown , a former secretary of Yarm Conservatives who now lives in Abbey Road , Darlington , said she felt sorry for people who had waited for an hour or more . |
| 4 | Of those people who had volunteered for redundancy , 49 per cent . |
| 5 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 6 | As there was little or no advance warning , those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed . |
| 7 | And people who had bought their most recent non-routine purchase on credit — especially on HP or mail order — tended to worry more about money than people who had bought for cash . |
| 8 | Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot . |