Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The China Inland Mission 's early years inland were hazardous with riots , some internal dissension , and opposition from established missionaries who especially objected to the use of Chinese dress . |
| 2 | But most poignant of all was the deserted Ministry of Culture , Slovak Republic stand staffed by a collective of solemnly seated , moustached , chain-smoking , dark suited gentlemen who clearly wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 3 | Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity . |
| 4 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 5 | This continuity existed among both employers and employees in many cases so that there are many farmers ' sons who also had to ‘ serve their time ’ alongside the hired labour force before taking over the farm and many elderly farm workers who can remember instructing their current employer in the ways of the farm when he was a small boy . |
| 6 | CORNERSHOP , the Leicester-based Asian buzz-pop polemicists who recently signed to Wiiija Records , play two London dates at . |
| 7 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 8 | Presumably , if any of those Kurds who desperately clung to snowy slopes at border mountains , trapped between the armies of three states that did not recognise them , had been able to reach an aeroplane and fly to Britain , they would have qualified for asylum under the 1951 convention . |
| 9 | Barely twelve people , and those good pious souls who never went to the cinema anyway . |
| 10 | There must be a steady proportion of grass-rooters who never listened to a single word of the conference proper , spending the mornings awash with coffee , lunchtime with lager , and tea with Typhoo . |
| 11 | Williams was one of those players who never learned to properly channel his aggression , never believed anybody knew better than him and always asked ‘ Why me ? ’ of critics rather than himself . |
| 12 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 13 | Another youth patrol fended off neighbouring peasants who constantly tried to fell trees belonging to the colony ( shades of Nikol'skaia volost' ) . |
| 14 | Five people were assassinated at Acerra , near Naples , on May 1 by a group of men who apparently belonged to the Camorra , the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia . |
| 15 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 16 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 17 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
| 18 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 19 | She was one of the last of the anachronistic breed of Northern women who only spoke to men when spoken to , or after three port and lemons , whichever came first . |
| 20 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |
| 21 | Consumers who once stuck to favourite brands most or all of the time are now willing to try any item that catches their eye . |