Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good five minutes before Sharpe noticed the French Dragoons who followed him . |
| 2 | Lee 's intervention is expected to be warmly welcomed by City fans who idolised him during his playing days . |
| 3 | And for those insular fans who shunned them in their thousands at Old Trafford and Elland Road , a sense of guilt would not be inappropriate . |
| 4 | After a performance in Manchester towards the end of 1989 , Gedge was accosted by a group of fans who told him vehemently that the band 's new songs were poor compared with previous material . |
| 5 | He confessed in the magazine Psychology Today to being uneasy with fans who asked him to make their day by autographing their guns . |
| 6 | Or how about your every day football manager , suspect to the whims of ambitious chairmen and demands of football fans who hail you one minute and then call for your head if the glint of silverware is not on the horizon . |
| 7 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 8 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 9 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 10 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 11 | In general terms , the first chapter of the book manifests Nash 's intention to treat popfiction , " the art that easily diverts us " , with respect , and to defend it against those readers who scorn it and deny its merits . |
| 12 | A special frisson seems to be guaranteed for readers who think they are readers if the object of the mystery is itself a literary ( or artistic ) artefact — the manuscript in The Name of the Rose , the novel in Francesca Duranti 's The House on Moon Lake ( 1987 ) , the unwriting writer in Del Giudice . |
| 13 | At the same time , this screen , these games with and in words , can even now frighten off those readers who feel they must always know where they are when they read , or irritate those who see the games as a form of deliberate teasing or provocation . |
| 14 | But it ran into early criticism from disabled shoppers who claim it discriminates against them , and from traders who fear it will hit business . |
| 15 | It 's not just the traders who claim they 've lost out . |
| 16 | And even more telling , the slow , sad exodus of young traders who find they no longer have a job . |
| 17 | The secondary premise of Sean 's Show , as described by producer Katie Lander , is that ‘ he 's being controlled by scriptwriters who treat him as a sitcom character . |
| 18 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 19 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 20 | In fact the husbands who said they were helping tended to be the ones who did the least . |
| 21 | In fact these two opinions are not incompatible : a Merovingian may have had a large income , but he also had vast financial commitments ; he had to reward his faithful retainers ; he had to endow the shrines of the saints , to ensure their support , and that of the clergy who served them ; he would also have to demonstrate his piety in almsgiving . |
| 22 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 23 | Called ‘ porter ’ after the Covent Garden market porters who drank it , it was characterised by its distinct , dark colour , which came from the roasted barley it contained . |
| 24 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 25 | But it ran into early criticism from disabled shoppers who claim it discriminates against them , and from traders who fear it will hit business . |
| 26 | When I was working in London , we often got clients who blamed us if their pets died . |
| 27 | Most clients who seek them in fact qualify for green form assistance and they are comparatively uncommon . |
| 28 | The brothel keeper had no reason to lie to me , and I 've talked to the other clients who saw her there . ’ |
| 29 | And they warn that banks may well have their arms twisted by troubled clients who want them to convert dud loans into equity . |
| 30 | I do n't know what the financial arrangements are but he has a double role , he attends the classes but he also does spinal manipulation and massage for those of Brand 's clients who need it or say they do . ’ |