Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was you who got rid of them — made them redundant . |
| 2 | It was an emotional parting , not only for the children , but also for the English volunteers who 'd looked after them . |
| 3 | It was an emotional parting , not only for the children , but also for the English volunteers who 'd looked after them . |
| 4 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 5 | Mrs Langley , who had stood over them while he spoke , forbidding in burgundy taffeta and garnets , said she was sure they could amuse each other very well without her . |
| 6 | In these least months of 1978 almost all the golden people of Iran and international wheeler-dealers who had fed off them and with them have vanished — westward . |
| 7 | As two of the young survivors , Joanna Willis , 16 , and Marie Rendle , 17 , left Weymouth and District Hospital they exchanged hugs with the staff nurse who had cared for them . |
| 8 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 9 | Beyond swing doors were the babies : mended harelips , and small creatures who had constructed for them by human skill gullet or anal opening or separate fingers with which the working cells and DNA during their gestation had failed to provide them . |
| 10 | The purpose of the interviewing programme was to collect background information on the nature of the railways and their industrial relations , and to examine a number of key issues and events with the actors who had participated in them . |
| 11 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 12 | It was suggested in 1948 by two refugees from Nazi-occupied Austria , Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold , together with a Briton , Fred Hoyle , who had worked with them on the development of radar during the war . |
| 13 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 14 | And Elizabeth knew who had paid for them . |
| 15 | Who had paid for them ? |
| 16 | Legal executive Liza , 24 , said the Bosnian army would not let 25-year-old boxer Senad Pezerovic , who had fought with them as a volunteer , travel to Austria to get a visa for Britain . |
| 17 | The anaesthetizing shock of the trenches was to bring about a delayed-action reflex for many who had fought in them . |
| 18 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 19 | Thus , the intellectual climate was transformed by refugees from the failed Paris Commune , and from Spain , Italy and Germany , who had brought with them their socialistic education , which led to the general practice of mutual aid among the immigrants — a practice little known to the people of Argentina' ( Juan Justo , in Aguilar : 1968 , p. 79 ) . |
| 20 | Except to Peter , of course , who had talked about them constantly . |
| 21 | Who had forgotten about them and gone off , leaving all those trunks up there ? |
| 22 | The consensus that emerged about the teachers who had mattered to them was neither that they were strict nor that they were liberal , but simply that they were interested in them as people . |