Example sentences of "person who [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persons who wished to manipulate the spirits and demons operated with the advice and help of specialists such as temple priests , exorcists , and mediums . |
| 2 | On 11th March 1979 , Dr. Robert Irwin , a police surgeon , stated in an Independent Television programme shown throughout the United Kingdom that he had examined some one hundred and fifty persons who had received physical injuries during interrogation , including bruises , damaged joints and several ruptured ear drums . |
| 3 | A man might be fined , in which case it was usual for him to be ordered to make payment to the person or persons who had suffered as a result of his crime . |
| 4 | They were descendents of persons who had adopted Christianity during Portuguese rule . |
| 5 | These included members of non-Communist political parties and students belonging to non-Communist student organisations ; Mensheviks , Trotskyists and persons ‘ removed from the Communist Party ’ ; military judges , state police , gendarmerie and prison staff ; aristocrats , bankers , merchants , industrialists , hotel and restaurant proprietors ; clergymen and persons active in parishes ; persons who had travelled abroad ; even Esperantists and philatelists . |
| 6 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 7 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 8 | Somehow Margery got to Calais , where she met ‘ divers persons who had known her before ’ ; they would not let her know which ship they were sailing on , but Margery ‘ speered and spied ’ until she found out , and put her luggage aboard . |
| 9 | The persons who had known her before secretly got ready another ship , though ‘ what the cause was , she never knew ’ , says Margery ingenuously . |
| 10 | In 1989 , the federal government unveiled a three-year ‘ humanitarian aid ’ package , which provided $30,000 annually to blood-transfused HIV-infected persons who agreed to waive federal liability in the tainted-blood scandal . |
| 11 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 12 | This publication contained detailed descriptions of persons who failed to appear at court to answer a criminal charge . |
| 13 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 14 | That was probably the opinion of persons who found ail lectures obscure . |
| 15 | Although there is no direct evidence that officials at the judicial secretariat in Colombo accepted bribes for dismissing or weakening criminal cases prosecuted in the superior courts , there were persons who claimed to act as agents for such transactions . |
| 16 | Over the years WACC has given scholarships to persons who needed training as documentalists . |
| 17 | If a constable were to ask for a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree , the person who declined to lend his assistance would commit no offence thereby . |
| 18 | Sebastian 's mother , Deborah , was the only person who seemed to suspect the disarray of Alix 's emotions . |
| 19 | Stupid Aries might have been more to the point , because the only person who seemed to have been burnt by her fire was herself . |
| 20 | However , I now realise that perhaps the only person who felt intimidated by ‘ FE for all ’ was me . |
| 21 | I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company . |
| 22 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 23 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 24 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 25 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 26 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 27 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 28 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Clare was finally able to express her anger clearly to the person who had caused it . |
| 30 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |