Example sentences of "and who [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For Williamson , only soldiers who had fought in the war , and who understood the horrors of modern conflict , could save Europe from further disaster .
2 And who caused the holes to appear ?
3 In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ?
4 These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure .
5 They obeyed ( without breaking any contract ) and thus injured the trade of seven small producers of tweed who used imported yarn and who sued the officials for conspiracy .
6 Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it .
7 Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison .
8 This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment .
9 Further , I spoke to the driver concerned , who is still alive , and who confirmed the events and the working .
10 For the twenty-three years after 1950 , the list was run by Miss Mary Bruce , a caricature white-haired Whitehall spinster more interested in horses than in people and who scared the pants off all who worked with her .
11 People formed their opinions and judgements in discussion with others whom they knew and who considered the implications for related aspects of their lives .
12 And who selected the officers for the operation ?
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