Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions . |
| 2 | These reforms were partially aimed at reducing the influence of court officials and other persons who served as unofficial lawyers . |
| 3 | ‘ If I was a person who believed in such things … ’ |
| 4 | Another risk is that when information is filed under address a consumer may be refused credit not because of his own record but because the record of some other person who lived at that address . |
| 5 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 6 | But if nothing concrete emerges , we shall check the backgrounds of every person who stayed in this Lodge last night . ’ |