Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 2 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 3 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 4 | How the quite respectable people who lived under these conditions managed to bring up families , I shall never know . |
| 5 | who lived in these house plus I should think about |
| 6 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 7 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 8 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 9 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 10 | In contrast , in countries as distinct as Nigeria and Zambia , governments have supported the indigenous African entrepreneurs who benefited from these restraints on their potential competitors by a range of credit facilities and the judicious allocation of contracts . |
| 11 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 12 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 13 | Marc Bolan , who knew about these things , said it best : ‘ pop should be a spell . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's OK now , ’ said Constance , who knew about these things . |
| 15 | Someone who knew about these things had told Maman how the perpetual wearing of boots might encourage the proper shape of a girl 's ankles . |
| 16 | It is a much debated question whether those who voted for these resolutions were truly representative of their countries ' educators and whether the debate preceding them was fairly conducted . |
| 17 | It was not Giles , though , who featured in these dreams . |
| 18 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |