Example sentences of "people who [vb past] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the depression worsened after the Wall Street crash , the fringe voices of ‘ unorthodox ’ economists and politicians were joined by increasing numbers of people who looked to new ways of solving the country 's problems . |
| 2 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 3 | I hope those people who came to Ayresome Park tonight enjoyed the game . |
| 4 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 5 | Some of the money was raised by local people who contributed to special pool fundraising collections . |
| 6 | And the place smelled too , of hot bodies , hot electrical equipment , and the fumes of whisky ; not surprising that , considering the amount of the stuff they swallowed during the half-hour he had spent in that crowded room full of people who talked to one another in an incomprehensible private language , and at him as though he were a stupid child when they explained how the program would run . |