Example sentences of "who were in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 A friend arrived and challenged the men who were in her bedroom .
2 Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings , who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) .
3 ‘ People like me , who were in their 20s in the 1960s , want to look good , but are n't obsessed by fashion and certainly do n't want to be made uncomfortable by it . ’
4 When the couple , who were in their forties , unexpecte unexpectedly had a second son , the conscription officers informed them that their older son would have to serve in the army since the law exempted only one son per family .
5 At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination .
6 Longterm use was most frequent among those who were in their 50s and 60s in 1977–81 ( 37% ) .
7 After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing .
8 ‘ There are things and people here who were in my books — whom I created , in a manner of speaking .
9 As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed .
10 It was a vague but important time in the cultural and social history of the western world , a good time for those who were in it and enjoying themselves , a bad time for those who were dismayed at ‘ young people today ’ .
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