Example sentences of "men who [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 2 | Christina dragged her across the road away from a group of lecherous young men who leered and shouted : ‘ Cheese on ! |
| 3 | We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been trained to read Shakespeare and Goethe , and continued to do so . |
| 4 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 5 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 6 | There were over 5,000 in the Volunteers when they were at their greatest strength and although future years were to see Glasgow regiments of men who fought and died in many lands , the old Volunteers who fought a dog and lost , were soldiers too . |
| 7 | One of the men who fought and lost . |
| 8 | But the American War of Independence was not about territories and Powers , it was about freedom and liberties , and the victory was forged as much by the quill pen as the sword , by the men who wrote and signed a document not unlike the Declaration of Arbroath in content , the Declaration of Independence . |
| 9 | Some news in brief — detectives in Bellshill are hunting two men who attacked and robbed a pensioner in her own home after posing as policemen . |
| 10 | Detectives in Bellshill are hunting two men who attacked and robbed a pensioner in her own home after posing as policemen . |
| 11 | Worker robbed : Police were last night hunting two men who attacked and robbed a factory worker of several hundred pounds shortly after he collected the cash from a bank near North Shields town centre . |
| 12 | They have noted that many of the men who built and ran the Fifth Republic cut their teeth in the RPF . |
| 13 | I met the French and Moroccan men who changed and broke the deadlock between their countries that stood in the way of Morocco 's independence ; and in Nigeria we know that pioneer freedom fighter of Africa , Azikiwe , whose miraculous change of direction , and reconciliation with his political enemies , averted a Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's . |
| 14 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |