Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the same forces impelled the Slavs which affected the Asiatic peoples who moved into Europe from the east during the period of folk migrations which accompanied and contributed to the fall of the Roman empire . |
| 2 | The big-hitting Sam Snead once remarked : ‘ You drive for show but you putt for dough , ’ but try telling that to the fans who flocked to Daly 's banner in numbers unseen since ‘ Arnie 's Army ’ . |
| 3 | THE fans who revelled in Darlington 's magnificent rise from near-obscurity are helping the side slip back into the bad old days . |
| 4 | Finally , thank you to all those readers who wrote from smallholdings all over Britain expressing their support for the John McCarthy campaign . |
| 5 | Readers who came to Harvey Nichols for the show saw Linford Christie , Jeremy Guscott , George O'Dowd , Suzanne Mizzi and 50 models and 50 models all on the catwalk in the aid of charity . |
| 6 | I have vivid memories of several preachers who came to Baldersdale , particularly one evangelist called Rhoda Dent . |
| 7 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 8 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 9 | These were the Jews who helped maintain the camp and who , like Wolski , had by luck and chance avoided the death that fell upon the majority of the 250,000 Jews who came to Sobibor . |
| 10 | He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support . |
| 11 | Some gave handouts in cash or kind , sometimes to specific groups such as widows , orphans , the unemployed or to Jews who converted to Christianity , sometimes to anyone in visible need . |
| 12 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 13 | Of the estimated 185,000 Soviet Jews who emigrated to Israel during 1990 , approximately 4 per cent had settled in the territories . |
| 14 | Again , with a further five clients who remained at home for a while , the Ipswich development officer felt she could have continued home support but was overruled by others who preferred institutional care . |
| 15 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | The ‘ Antwerp Six ’ , a group of fashion designers who graduated from Antwerp 's Royal Academy of Fine Arts , has won international acclaim since the mid-1980s . |
| 17 | The High Court imposed the fine for contempt of court for refusal to obey an order to name the informants who told of links between the RUC and Loyalist gangs . |
| 18 | I sought out and consulted separately with three of the sleeping-car attendants in the racegoers ' sleeping cars who frowned in turn and said that first , the sort of jacket I was describing was worn by thousands , and second , everyone tended to look gaunt outside in the cold air . |
| 19 | Some later biographies survive of the Pythagoreans who settled in Italy , and these describe the oligarchic governments and even federations of cities which they established , but the details can not be trusted : ‘ saint literature ’ is notoriously fanciful , and these are hellenistic treatises whose authors had ideas of their own about the theory of kingship ; these have probably contaminated the biographical material beyond salvage . |
| 20 | He is playing the same game as missionaries who went to Asia to convert the ‘ heathen Chinee ’ and to Africa to redeem the ‘ dark continent ’ from barbarism . |
| 21 | The Darlington College of Technology part-time student won a regional heat to be one of 12 finalists who travelled to London last week . |
| 22 | ‘ She was found out by a couple o' the local lads who went over Charin' Cross fer a good time . |
| 23 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 24 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 25 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 26 | UN chemical weapons inspectors who returned to Manama , Bahrain , following a week-long mission in Iraq said on Nov. 9 that Iraq had begun the incineration of its mustard gas arsenal at the former chemical weapons production complex at Muthanna , 130 km from Baghdad [ see also p. 39116 ] . |
| 27 | The UN Security Council on Jan. 28 reprimanded Iraq for allowing protestors to assault UN inspectors who arrived on Jan. 27 with responsibility for disposing of chemical and biological weapons stocks . |
| 28 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 29 | Bede says that after the defeat and death of Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , in the battle of Nechtanesmere in 685 , the Picts recovered their land which the Angles had held and the Scots who lived in Britain and certain of the Britons ( perhaps of Strathclyde ) their independence ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 30 | Old soldiers remember fallen comrades Alan Hutchison meets a dwindling band of Scots who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War |