Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 2 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 3 | A similar-aged comparison group of women was found who had also participated in a previous study . |
| 4 | In reality , Spiro 's main contact was Dr Adnan Mroueh , a Shia Moslem gynaecologist who had also served as a junior minister in the Lebanese Cabinet . |
| 5 | One officer who had also worked as a trade effluent inspector remarked on ‘ the variety and the flexibility and freedom that this job gives you as opposed to trade effluent control . |
| 6 | Norman , an aggressive nine year old , exploded at a boy walking in front of him who had thoughtlessly trodden on a painting which had fallen onto the floor . |
| 7 | Group 4 comprised follow up of histologically normal biopsy specimens from five patients , previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease , who had strictly adhered to a gluten free diet . |
| 8 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 9 | At this there was a muted growl of support from those in the hall who had not succumbed to a heavy lunch . |
| 10 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 11 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 12 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 13 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 14 | Gen. Vieira , who had previously served as a minister for the Azores Islands , replaced the interim Governor , Franciso Murteira Nabo , who had been appointed in September 1990 following the resignation of Carlos Melancia over corruption allegations [ see p. 37714 ] . |
| 15 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 16 | So she did washing for William van Straubenzee , one of Sarah 's old boyfriends , and ironed the shirts of Rory Scott , who had then starred in a television documentary about Trooping the Colour , and Diana regularly stayed for weekends at his parents ' farm near Petworth , West Sussex . |
| 17 | Yesterday , Lord Justice Slade , sitting with Lord Justice Mann and Sir David Croom-Johnson , said Mrs Luxmoore-May deserved sympathy , as did anyone who had unwittingly parted with a ‘ sleeper ’ — an item of hitherto unrecognised value . |
| 18 | ‘ We have us some scum for the cooking pot too ! ’ cried Raphaelo Florienborque , who had never strayed into a kitchen in his life . |
| 19 | Tilda , who had never sat in a rocker before , replied that her boots were too dirty . |
| 20 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 21 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 22 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 23 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 24 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |
| 25 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 26 | Was this the man , he straddled the boy , who had once run from a girl ? |
| 27 | It was he , too , who had once dealt with a particularly troublesome stoat by leading it down among the pheasant coops and so ( at the risk of his own life ) on to a keeper 's gun . |