Example sentences of "people who knew the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 2 | Previously when someone 's age had to be formally determined it had to be done in the presence of a sheriff of the county and a ‘ jury ’ composed of local people who knew the person concerned . |
| 3 | But he was still covering the door and-to move his seat apparently just for the sake of moving would seem suspicious — and it occurred to him that Washington DC would be full of people who knew the surveillance trade that tonight a lot of people would be running genuine surveillances . |
| 4 | The tenants were the people who knew the district intimately from years of experience living and farming there and they were the ones who made the decisions in the manor court . |
| 5 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 6 | Many people who knew the Semai insisted that such an unwarlike people could never make good soldiers . |
| 7 | People who knew the Williams cackle , from the NAAFI in Singapore , through repertory in Birmingham to Shaftesbury Avenue , could identify it anywhere . |