Example sentences of "who [vb past] to [adj] [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 | The worst rioting was in Podujevo , where on Jan. 29 and 31 several thousand demonstrators , many of them schoolchildren and students , fought running battles with police who resorted to rubber bullets and tear gas dropped from helicopters . |
| 4 | Of the women who admitted to New Woman magazine that they had slept with another man about 80 per cent said they 'd done it because they were unhappy in their current relationship . |
| 5 | Yet Evans-Pritchard records that he never met a Zande who admitted to practising witchcraft , although when pressed Zande might acknowledge that witchcraft substance could act on its own account , perhaps even against the conscious intentions of the person concerned . |
| 6 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 7 | A Texan jury on December 20th convicted Don ‘ Big Daddy ’ Dixon for using his bank as a personal piggy-bank ; the next day prosecutors announced that they had squeezed a guilty plea from Edwin ‘ Fast Eddie ’ McBirney , who admitted to artful manipulation of deposits at Sunbelt Savings Association , the largest S&L ever to fail in Texas . |
| 8 | Both kings came to be surrounded by uncles who sought to further war for their own ends . |
| 9 | Gooch 's first priority this morning will be to finalise a side from the 14 players who reported to Old Trafford . |
| 10 | I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions . |
| 11 | These elements distinctive to humans were emphasised in the work of G. H. Mead , C. H. Cooley and W. I. Thomas , three of the early American symbolic interactionists who contributed to social action theory . |
| 12 | Some of the money was raised by local people who contributed to special pool fundraising collections . |
| 13 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 14 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 15 | She was one of three long-lived sisters who rose to senior posts in the Army . |
| 16 | The American , who crashed to Russian qualifier Andrei Olhovskiy in last year 's third round , should have a straightforward opening match against Italian Gianluca Pozzi . |
| 17 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 18 | It was a very scared bunch of men , announcing the death of the Dear Father of the Soviet People , who appealed to those people to avoid ‘ panic and disarray ’ . |
| 19 | I hope those people who came to Ayresome Park tonight enjoyed the game . |
| 20 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 21 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 22 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 23 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 24 | The revival of psychoanalytic criticism , usually in its Lacanian version , has been a disconcerting surprise to someone who came to intellectual maturity in the 1950s , when Freud seemed a figure of increasing remoteness . |
| 25 | John Welsby , a former transport department civil servant who came to British Rail 10 years ago and took over as chief executive in January last year , believes the new system could prove unwieldy . |
| 26 | In the 1920s and 1930s some Marxists — and particularly those who adhered to Bolshevik views — conceived fascism as the more or less inevitable form assumed by the rule of the bourgeoisie in the monopolistic phase of capitalist development , and at the same time underestimated the strength of the fascist movements . |
| 27 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 28 | Among those who turned to other occupations were Roman Catholic career policemen whose families had been associated with the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC , for two and three generations . |
| 29 | Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension . |
| 30 | Gresford , two points below the Quay men in second place , entertain champions Pontblyddyn who returned to winning ways last week after a dismal spell . |